Quick, someone tell me the symptoms of a bad coil pack please!

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Mar 29, 2002 | 12:21 PM

zerinS4

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Quick, someone tell me the symptoms of a bad coil pack please!

Mar 29, 2002 | 12:27 PM

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the best thing I've seen to diagnose a coil pack issue is to...

...move the coilpacks around from one cylindar to another (the cylindar that is having problems), if the problems move with the coil pack, then that's a safe bet you have a bad coil pack.

Find Audiboy, he just diagnosed this problem a couple weeks ago...

Mar 29, 2002 | 12:28 PM

Barney Fife

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Engine starts to buck and goes into safe mode, then you limp off the road and call AAA

Mar 29, 2002 | 12:28 PM

Jeremy Clarkson

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bad idle, possible smell of gas, crappy WOT, poor milage

Mar 29, 2002 | 12:34 PM

MingsS4

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How do you tell if the problem moved with the coilpack? Are misfire codes cylinder specific?

Mar 29, 2002 | 12:37 PM

ryans4

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That's what I can't remember, Audiboy will know...

Mar 29, 2002 | 12:44 PM

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Yes....

check here for the VAG blocks....

<A HREF="http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/m_blocks/010-019.html">http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/m_blocks/010-019.html</A>