So i noticed a leak a few days ago .. and it started getting worse.
Then yesterday it misfired when i started it up.
Then this morning on my way down to the dealership , the CEL was flashing and it was misfiring the whole way down.
They pulled some codes but there were too many for my to remember , lol .
they arent doing any work on it till Friday .. god...
I will post the codes when I get my car back.
I have lost my freedom

 

Yikes, sorry to hear that man. Sounds like a coilpack problem?

 

Yup thats what must be causing the misfires. Ive had Coil problems in the past..
But the leaking valve was really bad .. No boost

 

wow that sucks man, sorry to hear it

n00b question, what does the coilpack do?

 

Ahh i feel you pain, i;ve had no car for a month on wed, and its almost time for some new shoes on the huffy[:@]

 

im sorry to hear that ife sucks wit out a car

 

what does a coil pack do? A coil is a form of a smiple tranformer in electrical terms. A coil contains 2 sets of electrical windings a primary and secondary. When voltage is applied to the primary windings(battery voltage) and then quickly removed it induces a steped up much stronger voltage into the seondary windings, enough to jump a gap across your spark plug. So basically it creates your engines spark. Most cars will have a single coil(with a distributor) or 1 for 2 cyclinders(waste spark system). But on your higher $ cars (audi) there is 1 for each spark plug (coil per plug system). Hows that Prothymos

 

ha, thanks, that makes sense now...

 

And when you go standalone with a waste spark system you need to ditch the stock coilpack, because they would need to recharge 4 times as fast which isnt possible. (Thought I would throw that in cause i learned it this week )

 

What coil packs can you use instead Tom?