Changing Symptoms

[hombre@elp.rr.com (John Erickson)]

I think you nailed it, Allyn.  I just ordered a new coil form Potter.  The 
car does great cold and hot - as long as I don't sit in traffic.  I think 
the heat off the exhaust is cookin' the coil (causing a "leak").

BTW, when I called Potter, I asked him about the non-leaking Audi oil 
filler cap you mentioned.  He wanted to know "which Audi?"  He said they 
(VW and Audi) are all the same unless there is a model specific one.  ??

Thanks for the post confirming my financial expenditure :)

John

At 04:27 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Allyn wrote:
>You've got a temp sensitive spark plug or plug wires or coil. I had to 
>abort my trip to cincy last
>year cause a plug wire went to crap on me. Had to limp back home (30 
>miles) on 3 cylinders and throw
>on the other set of wires, then i was back off to cincy.
>Al
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Erickson" <hombre@elp.rr.com>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:04 PM
>Subject: Changing Symptoms
>
>
> > I've been posting over the last week or so about my 16v cutting out over 4K
> > RPM.  Well, in the last day or so, it seemed to be doing much better (all
> > the way to 7K), but that was not with a hot engine.  I got stuck in some
> > traffic today and the cutting out got much, much worse (as low as
> > 3K).   The only thing I can think of is one of the temp switches, but its
> > OK (mostly) with the temp gauge in the middle.  Its only when it starts
> > creeping up that it gets bad (good thing its not summer).   Anyone have any
> > similar temp-related experience?
> >
> > John
> > 87 16v
> >
> >
> >
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