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Bazstrickers
07-12-2007, 07:10 PM
Hi all, can you please offer me some advice?

My 2000 a3 1.8 t sport is running like cack, it appears to be running on 3 cylinders, as its very very lumpy, down on power, but can still get up to 6000rpm under full load.

I have replaced the coil pack on cylinder no 3 as suggested by the unhelpfull man at green flag but it still running rough awfull.

Any advice or pointers?

Cheers guys and girls.

porterclough
11-12-2007, 03:30 PM
I recently bought a 2005 a3 2.0 and the day after I bought it (from a main dealer!) it did this. They had it in 3 times replacing different coil packs each time under warranty, third time I was far from happy and demanded they keep it till sorted - a few days later they decided to replace a spark plug and since then it's been fine.

You'd think they'd check things like that first but apparently there was a software fault with the diagnostics reporting the fault on the wrong cylinder each time.

engineermk
17-12-2007, 04:00 PM
I replaced all 4 coil packs and plugs on my golf when one went down... ran sweet after that

Crasher
17-12-2007, 04:14 PM
You need to get it fault code read again to see which cylinder is at fault.