Re: Check engine lights on

[Orin Eman <orin@wolfenet.com>]

>  Did you know that we are on version number 5! of 1.8t ECM software?  And
> when the latest doesn't do it we have a brilliant little guy from Audi in
> NJ come out with a magic black box and tweek ECMs on site.  The cars seem
> to flood and crank but not start.  But do they not start 'cause they flood
> or do they flood because they don't start?   We don't always know and if
> Audi knows they aren't saying.  The early solution was NGK plugs and
> lighter weight engine oil.  Worked for some. 
> Whatever, Audi has some work to do with the OBD-11 cars and their cold
> start maps. 

Well I have had the "I ain't going nowhere" dog-slowness after 1/4 mile,
stop at lights then try to move in my 97 A4 1.8T AT.  Supposedly
this one requires an ECU swap...

I wonder what all the chip vendors are doing about this.  (Probably
saving Audi a bunch of warranty work... "Oh dear, you have a cold
start problem.  Well, you don't have the stock software, so hard luck.
Restore it to stock and then we might look at it.")

Orin.