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How long does it take for the misfires to occur or for the engine to stall?
Is the time period until the engine dies always identical? |
"No, when I received the vehicle, it was supposedly not running at all. After I bled the fuel system (the previous owner had even bypassed the diesel filter!), it started immediately, and ran for about 20 minutes with intermittent misfires. Then, it only started sporadically..."
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| Can the decay be prevented if one manipulates the gas? |
Negative - it has absolutely no influence.
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| On my A3 8L, I once had a defective fuse box on the battery, and the resulting electrical faults in the vehicle's wiring system led to approximately 30 horsepower of reduced maximum power and an emergency mode while driving, even though the power supply to the engine control unit (ECU) was not affected by the relevant fuse circuit! |
That was also something I considered. However, the length of the component would place it just below the WSS on the left side, and the engine control unit (ECU) is located there as well. The crimp connectors that are in there are all okay, there are no signs of water damage, and the ground connection is solid

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vwSchrauber wrote the following:
However, this only applies to the idle speed.
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Aha... the 2.0 16V TDI engine in the Touran, which had those problems, always sputtered during the warm-up phase at idle - sometimes to the point of stalling. A correction to a few maps, or characteristic curves, provided relief. When you look at it, you might think that the engineers intentionally programmed an oscillator there

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