A4 1.9TDI Intermittent power fault

[Dave.jj]

Hi all....

I have been getting an intermittent fault which I can only describe to be as if the car were petrol and had a dodgy spark plug. Now and then I will be accelerating and then all of a sudden it is like the car has a drop in power (just like a car running on 3 cylinders when it should be 4) it will then run like that until I switch off, when I restart it is fine again. when it happens now I switch off as I am coasting and switch on again and it is back to full power.... any ideas please...

Thanks in advance.

[Dave.jj]

I have juat read the Thread "SMOKEY A4 19 TDI " posted by brendanMC, it looks like its the same problems that I am having... so I will follow up some of the suggestions there, unless of course anyone has any other ideas....

[REMO]

Hi all....

I have been getting an intermittent fault which I can only describe to be as if the car were petrol and had a dodgy spark plug. Now and then I will be accelerating and then all of a sudden it is like the car has a drop in power (just like a car running on 3 cylinders when it should be 4) it will then run like that until I switch off, when I restart it is fine again. when it happens now I switch off as I am coasting and switch on again and it is back to full power.... any ideas please...

Thanks in advance.


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