HELP!! please!! a4 2.5 tdi wont start

**stevo0582** · 31-12-2007,11:23 AM

HI folks, i am at my wits end, i am selling a psi tuning box for the audi 2.5 tdi v6, its the vp box,
My nightmare started last night when a chap arrived to buy it and wondered if i'd fit it for him..... i thought nothing of helping him out with it, but when we fitted the box, he wasn't happy that the performance was of any significant increase so we removed the box connect everything the way it was and now his car wont run!!!!!! GREAT!! so now i have some1's a4 sat on my drive that wont run, the problems i can describe are as follows, the car will fire and run for about a second and cut out, then if you try it again straight away it wont even fire, then if you leave it a second or two it will fire and run for a second and cut out, now the guy said that the orange light with the car and a picture of a key on it never came on before when you switched the ignition on, but now it does, it goes out when you turn the ignition on, and wait for glow plug light to go out it does too, but the damn car wont run, i am panicing that ive wrecked this guys car!!! please can some1 shed some light!!! have i possibly wiped the code out the ecu, or damaged the immobiliser!!!the car hasn't run since this occurred!! help me please................ many thanks steven.

**AutoTDI** · 31-12-2007,12:41 PM

Presumably the car was running OK before removing the box. All I can suggest is that you check the connectors carefully for possible damage following box removal and re-instatement of original setup. Although I have no experience of tuning boxes, I do dabble a lot with electronics/computers and 99% of problems seem to be associated with connectors and/or wiring. Have you tried the box back on your own car, or are you worried about the same thing happening?

**audimad** · 31-12-2007,01:15 PM

Thats an imobilsser problem, try moving the steering wheel in and out a bit, then leave it more in than normal,see if that works.They have a habit of stretching the reader wires.
Also try the spare key

HTH

**stevo0582** · 31-12-2007,01:18 PM

thankyou for your reply, well i've actualy sold my a4, due to being sick fed up with it, when i owned it, the garage was its second home!! it was the afb eng code, which is renound for injection pump failure etc, which i had, and had to replace, £2200 quoted from main *******!! but got an independant specialist to fix for £1400, still a hefty blow, so ave lost alot of confidence in audi dealers due to other issues that i had with them, which would prob shock most, but thats a diff story.... anyway rant over......
So here i am now having got rid of that 2.5 nightmare to having someone elses sitting on my drive, think im jinxed!!!

I've jst spoken to a mate who's a very well respected auto electrical technition, who said that this very problem happened to him a few weeks ago, when a customers A4 in which he renewed a battery on, had the same symptoms, he had to trailer the car to audi and get it recoded, due to the key and the imobiliser going out of sync!!!! i prob had the battery disconected three or four times in succession!!! so i am praying this is the case, i know this was i private deal but i feel only obliged to pay for the computer recoding, as i feel responsible for said problem.....

**stevo0582** · 31-12-2007,01:23 PM

Originally Posted by audimad

Thats an imobilsser problem, try moving the steering wheel in and out a bit, then leave it more in than normal,see if that works.They have a habit of stretching the reader wires.
Also try the spare key

HTH

Thankyou for your reply i will try this jst now, unfortunatly i only have 1 key the guy lives about 40 miles away, this is a monumental mess, that only i could of engineered to perfection..... cheers lads...

**Crasher** · 31-12-2007,01:32 PM

The first thing you need to do is find some way of getting the ECU read for fault codes. Did you disconnect the battery when fitting the tuning box? The immobiliser coding is between the ECU and the instruments, I can't see why unplugging the injection pump would do this. I have been fitting P-Boxes for years on these engines and have never had this happen.

**stevo0582** · 31-12-2007,01:32 PM

Been playining with the reach/rake on car but no joy, is def something to do with me playing with the ecu or battery, all the connectors are firmly in place and no bent pins etc....... the immobiliser is definately cutting the car out, my old a4 did it intermitantly but this is jst refusing to even intermitant the prob, it jst outright runs and cuts out!!!!

**stevo0582** · 31-12-2007,01:36 PM

Originally Posted by Crasher

The first thing you need to do is find some way of getting the ECU read for fault codes. Did you disconnect the battery when fitting the tuning box? The immobiliser coding is between the ECU and the instruments, I can't see why unplugging the injection pump would do this. I have been fitting P-Boxes for years on these engines and have never had this happen.

Hi crasher, thankyou for looking at this you've helped me before on other posts, yes the battery was on off about four times, got the car booked into audi on thurs, its all pretty tricky as its not my car.....