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Old Jan 8, 2008 | 03:21 PM
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Default Re: Cruise on Sunday the 23rd

Originally Posted by BSeriesTurbo
you get it to quit misfiring? Those cars had troubles with coils, they are notorious for being bad, pretty cheap too. Also I think they still used the 'final stage', otherwise known as a power transistor. They caused problems as well, but I can't recall whether the s4's use them...
Yea, you're on the money. We changed 2 coils (cylinders 2 and 5) in my silver car today and erased the fault (misfire) codes. Went out to drive it again, the misfire code for cyl. 2 never came back. The misfire code for cyl. 5 came back...so then we swapped the coil/plug extension (I think thats what they're called) from coil 5 with coil 1, erased the codes. Went to drive and cyl. 1 misfire code came up!

So now we've narrowed it down to that one coil extension. See, when we ordered the 2 coils from audi they only sent us the coils, and no coil extensions...which I always thought those were included. So we were having to use new coils, with old extensions.

All in all, we solved the mystery for cylinder 2 (bad coil). And solved the mystery for cylinder 5 (bad extension and possibly bad coil as well). Now we're just waiting for the extensions (we ordered 2 just to be safe) to come in (either tomorrow or thursday).