cliffcoggin

Diagnose it with the code reader you said you were going to buy in your previous topic.

[1] Nonsense. Just use the grade of fuel recommended by the manufaturer. [2] The wheels become dirty mainly with brake dust. Whether the wheels are driven or not makes no difference, every wheel has a brake which gives off dust. [3] Use soapy water for cleaning. It works on all colours and all cars.

Well if you don't know what you want, how can we advise? What do you hope to achieve by remapping? Until you have some specific targets I suggest you leave it as standard.

No, such things mean nothing to me.

Yes I mean a code reader, but not the cheap ones available from Ebay and the like. You need a professional quality scanner which can read the full range of codes. VCDS is one commonly recommended on the forum, and there are a couple of others whose names I don't recall.

Met. I have hidden your identical duplicate topic.

With the engine out it will be so much easier to work on than doing it all under the bonnet. While it is out it would be worth taking the head off and checking the valves, maybe regrinding them if such a thing is done nowadays. You can then also measure the bores for wear. At the bottom of the engine look at the main and big end shells, and check the journals. That data should give you an indication of how much work is needed, and hence how much it is likely to cost.

That's a generous offer Rob. I hope someone will take it up.

Mark. You could waste huge amounts of money fitting new parts at random in the hope it will solve your problem. You have already bought coil packs, a carbon clean, and a mass flow sensor to no avail. How much more money and time are you prepared to throw away? The key to an economical repair is diagnosis on a VCDS or similar quality machine.

I really don't think I can help any further Steven. The only way I know to approach a problem like yours is based on logic not guesswork. Let's hope somebody else will chip in with ideas for you.

Steve. It's been years, well decades actually, since I took a crankshaft out so I have no idea about the specific tasks involved in yours. However the major obstacle I found was disconnecting the engine from the transmission. In my case, involving an in line engine and rear wheel drive, that entailed removing the propshaft, the gearbox, the clutch, and the flywheel. The lesser obstacles were at the front of the engine and entailed removing the crankshaft pulley & belt, the timing cover, and the timing chain, all of which necessitated removal of the radiator first. Even though the layout of your engine bay will be greatly different from my old Fords and Austins, the same principles will apply. It was a lot of work, much of it under the car. I suggest you hire an engine crane to make the work easier and quicker. I could not afford such things in my early years of motoring.

It sounds like the instrument cluster is faulty, a not uncommon problem. It can be repaired by a few companies if you remove it from the car and post it to them, or you can pay a great deal more at Audi.

Remapping has made it much harder to diagnose the faults. If a proper diagnosis does not lead to a fix, all I can suggest is to restore the original map and hope for the best.

Has the car been modified in any way, or remapped? I suggest you get diagnostic scan on a professional machine, the cheap DIY readers are inadequate for a thorough anaysis.

You won't get a reply from Fubar as he ended his membership of the forum.

I interpret those figures as £0.27 per mile, which is not surprising considering the cost of electricity at most public rapid charge points. It was commonly £0.83 per kWh the last time I looked. The only way to fuel electric cars at a lower cost per mile than diesel or petrol is to charge at home, especially if you can get cheap overnight rates of £0.15 per kWh or less.

This is the one I mean Manjinder. https://www.audiownersclub.com/forums/forum/142-audi-a3-8y-forum/

That nobody has replied does not mean nobody has done the job. That is an unwarranted assumption.

I've never heard of it, so I guess it is a uniquely American standard. Are you aware this a European, principally British, forum?

Glad to read it.

That's very good news.

Was the reply any use to you Charles? I know you have seen it.

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A wise decision, which two of us have previously recommended, and all the more worthwhile in view of your latest revelation of a damaged plug.