Help needed ASAP please. Possible coil pack failure?

[S3 Paul]

This morning my car lost power and sounds like its on 3 cylinders.
Im hoping coil pack , Vag com says mulitiple misfire?
Is the safest way to check which if any coil pack has gone to have the car running and unplug the injectors one at a time? hopefully one will make no diffrence to the engine note ??

Is this the easyest way?

Please help as car is stuck at work.

 

[<tuffty/>]

if its misfiring on idle pull the injector wiring plug off one injector at a time... if the engine note doesn't change then thats the bad cylinder

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[Scullies]

Could also be a spark plug

Once you found which cylinder is not firing, swap coil packs around and check again

 

[S3 Paul]

Thanks people,
It was a coil pack,
Number 2,
Ive asked Audi if they still honour the recall. Im waiting for a reply.
The coils were all genuine but ive had to just stick a BERU one in to fix the outstanding problem.

 

[Sam_]

The RS6/TT hitachi "e" bolt downs are said to be the most reliable, if Audi don't replace yours. Mine have been sound for 18 months.

 

[Prawn]

the bolts downs seem to last people fairly well on S3's.

Amazingly, the 3 wire bolt down BERU oem coilpacks were still going strong on the track car at 216k miles, having never blown one from new, I know of several 200k+ AGU's all running their original coils.

 

[Sam_]

Yeah a VW specialist mate of mine says he's never changed an AGU coil pack. He also said I should keep the bolt downs and not bother with TFSI ones. I think it's like these s2000 filters. Going from old tired parts to new ones is always going to be better.

 

[s3clarke]

Any news on the recall? Since Audi won't do my corrosion under warranty they can replace my coil packs instead!