Check Engine Light Flashing...Car Rumbling!
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ORIGINAL: pec2402
Great news, it was only a coil pack! Thanks for all the help and good diagnosis to all. Part only cost $31 plus $30 for labor. Can't believe that small of a part caused the car to run so bad, but now the car runs like new. I just hope it stays this way.
Also, during the absence of the Audi, i was driving an 02' Ford Taurus - if you ever feel you're tired of your car, just drive something like that for a couple of days and you will be thanking God for German engineering.
Great news, it was only a coil pack! Thanks for all the help and good diagnosis to all. Part only cost $31 plus $30 for labor. Can't believe that small of a part caused the car to run so bad, but now the car runs like new. I just hope it stays this way.
Also, during the absence of the Audi, i was driving an 02' Ford Taurus - if you ever feel you're tired of your car, just drive something like that for a couple of days and you will be thanking God for German engineering.
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Buy a couple more coil packs and keep them in the trunk as spares. And if one blows again, you can swap it out yourself in 5 minutes. No need to pay $30 in labor.
IC on the Taurus. People say the A4 is slow, but I'll bet a stock 1.8T can kill a Taurus any day. Piece o'carp car. I drove the MIL's '99 one time, the Saturn I had at the time drove 1000% better.
IC on the Taurus. People say the A4 is slow, but I'll bet a stock 1.8T can kill a Taurus any day. Piece o'carp car. I drove the MIL's '99 one time, the Saturn I had at the time drove 1000% better.
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ORIGINAL: onepoint8tee
flashing CEL means you have a misfire. Get your ecu scanned for fault codes (autozone will do it for free). Post up the codes here. But if it says "cyl 1 misfire detected" swap the coil pack on cyl.1 with cyl.2, drive, scan for fault codes. If it now say "cyl2" misfire then you know its a bad coil pack. Which is probably the case.
flashing CEL means you have a misfire. Get your ecu scanned for fault codes (autozone will do it for free). Post up the codes here. But if it says "cyl 1 misfire detected" swap the coil pack on cyl.1 with cyl.2, drive, scan for fault codes. If it now say "cyl2" misfire then you know its a bad coil pack. Which is probably the case.
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