Recent content by gadgesxi

The wife wants a TT, put its only for a year, if that, before family cars come along. Just the older shape for around 4 or 5k, but more like 4k. I know there all gonna have 100k on the clock, but is there any decent ones about or are they all hammered?

well the car is back to normal now!!! have a guess what the problem was.....?.............a faulty coil on cylinder 1. New coil bought from eurocar parts for 20 quid, and its now back to full glory! Thanks for the help guys!

whilst i wait for the coil pack i bought some spark plugs and have only managed to fit 2 before i snapped the plug removed (cheap halfords thing). Cars still crap with 2 new plugs anyway. Is it possible it could be the air mass meter? A fella in work is bringing a fault code reader and a plug...

Is this what i need? 925VG0140 IGN COIL-PENCIL A4 1.8 (AVJ/BFB/AWT/AMB/BEX) 21.75 thats from GSF

well just tried the car, and it seems ok now. I unplugged a coil pack and it did sound how it was. Maybe its when they have got hot, then their failing? anyway, i will order one, or two!

Do you mean the socket things the spark plugs plug into?

red wiring loom? cant remember seeing that. Is that the same for the 1.8T. I will give that a try though! If it is coil packs, how much ££ am i looking at?

1.8t I have never changed the coil packs

yes, revs are up and down on idle. auto box is tiptronic also, its the old type

Just went to tatton park, fine. Had a walk then back to the car and started up. The idle was really lumpy though, and when i pulled off it just hesitated really bad, rumbling and engine light flashed for a while then went off. I had to slowly accelerated to get up to speed on motorway and so on...

It comes off the breather then goes back into the turbo intake (i think). Problem is, its gets really hot, you cant touch it once the engines up at temp. Surely the turbo is sucking in red hot gasses??

I think its called something else, but where is it situated? So i can take it out and clean it.

Well phoned a VW/Audi specialist near me and they quoted a days work (£350 labour) to change the torque converter, but they said to bring it in for diagnostic first to make sure.

Its a a4 2003 1.8t quattro. I'll have to check with a specialist first i suppose, but reading about it points to the TC.

I get a strange drone/hum and doing a bit of research, its could be the torque converter. How much would it cost to be replaced?