Hi Jsgrabo,

I gapped the old ones...the new ones are the 4 armed ones and i wasn't sure how to do it to be honest! :-)

How small can I make the gaps before I start to cause myself problems? I have them at 0.6mm now! It does seem to be helping though, just not quite cured yet!

Cheers.

 

lol yeah i'm not too sure how you would go about gapping those. well they probably made your car worse because they arent gapped right. maybe someone else can chime in and lets us know how to gap em.

maybe your old plugs are just old and need replacing and you just had problems with the new ones because they arent gapped right??? perhaps theres more to it but maybe you could try picking up some cheap single electrode plugs, gap them, and try that to see if it works. Unless of course someone can tell us how to gap the 4 electrode plugs.

 

jsgrabo,

Glad its not just me then :-)

Any idea what the minimum gap is that I can use?

...since I saw your youtube videos I just want an S4 anyway! ;-)

 

I dont know the exact measurement of the minimum gap but i'm not so sure the gapping is the problem on the old plugs. how many miles do they have on them? I think it's just time to replace them.

and yeah, those vids are sickk! 2.7t FTW!!!

 

You know what...that didn't even occur to me! I was under the impression the mechanic guy had already changed them but then he would have charged me for them I guess :-)

Yeah thats what I'll do next...I'll get the same type, new and gap them and see what happens!

They've probably done about 6/8000 miles...doh!

Cheers!

 

Spent a fortune today on the same spark plugs (NGK PFR6Q) and the problem remained exactly the same...

I have the gap down to 0.6mm should I go smaller?

Cheers...

 

wow, thats not good. sorry.

maybe auditech or one of the other techs can chime in and we can get some professional advice.

if you still cant get an answer try pm'ing him. auditech79

 

Might try that...Cheers Mate!

 

Hey,

I just wanted to let you know in the name of education... :-)

My problem has been finally solved by an Audi specialist...he has changed all the coil packs and the problem has been solved. The first guy changed them but only ever changed one at a time which I believe is fairly normal procedure to find the faulty one...the second guy thought that it might be more than one and therefore changed them all...job done.

Not the cheapest of repairs but good to have it going properly again!

Cheers for all your help!