Re: 200qw saga continues

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl>]

At 09:53 99-03-14 -0500, Samir Shah wrote:

>It fires up, idles rock steady at 900 rpm, runs for about 45 secs, and
>then dies, with 3 chimes from somewhere in the dash. Requires sitting
>around for 10 minutes before it wil fire up again. If you let it run at
>2k rpm and then let go the accelerator, it will die immediately.

It sounds to me like you have a problem with warm-up regulator. The car is
starting on the cold start injector and idles OK (which indicates both the
ECU and idle stabilizer controller temperature switches are working OK),
but dies when the cold start injector stops working, which indicates a
problem with the warm-up regulator to me. To reliably check it's operation
you need a fuel pressure gauge, though.

>Any ideas? Could the ECU have gotten fried due to my charging of the
>battery?

I don't think it could happen.

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars break at the same time :-)