1999 Audi A3 1.8T AGU Engine starting trouble
 

Recently my Audi A3 1.8T AGU engine struggles to restart if I stall it. I have to turn it over for about 4 seconds and press the accelerator down to get it to just about splutter into life which I never had to do before. It can also have the same symptoms if I stop it to nip into a shop for a couple of minutes then try to start it. Also a few times when I start it first thing before my journey it turns over more times than normal before starting and splutters a bit as it fires. It drives fine and doesnt seem to be displaying any other problems once the engine has started. The car has covered 111,000 miles so could be a lot of things causing the problem.

I have had a mechanic do a code read but doesn't pick anything up so im stuck on what it could be. the car has had recent (within the last 30,000 miles) spark plugs, fuel filter, ignition amplifier module, oil temp sensor, coolant temp sensor & MAF sensor and was fine until now so shouldnt be these parts failing already.......I guess!

Any ideas would be much appreciated.



Cheers



Nick