Wet DD update

[jlagnese at massed.net (John S. Lagnese)]

Hi,
I think that I've solved the problem! The OXS connector was getting wet. I
opened the connector After I hosed the engine and there was some water
inside it! I wrapped it up and drove today in heavy rain for over an hour
with no problems.
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Pieper" <rapieper@yahoo.com>
To: "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese@massed.net>; "'Scirocco email List'"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Wet DD


> --- "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese@massed.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > You may remember in the fall I was having trouble with my DD, a 92 Jetta
Carat 1.8 8V. When it
> > gets wet, it dies...
> >     I tried disconnecting the blue temp sensor and magically the car
ran. If I disconnect the
> > OXS it also runs.
> >     Anyone run into something like this?
>
> Is this Digifant or CIS-E?
>
> First blush: seems like when you disconnect the O2 or the CTS, you have
the system running in open
> loop - so look at other sensors (throttle position, intake air temp (both
for Digi), check
> grounds, etc.  That's all I can remember right now...
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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