Re: quattro-digest V3 #753

[baselope@netwide.net (Robert Riley)]

>The car began running poorly about a week ago, missing, poor starting,
>stalling at idle, etc.  
Check your fuel pressure using a guage.  You MAY have a failing fuel pump.
The pumps in my cars have usually gone out at about 100k but I had one 
that went earlier.  It was very frustrating due to the fact that sometime 
the car would run fine, and then just stop dead at the most inconvienient 
places (middle of intersection, rail road crossing, etc.)
At other times it would just sputter along with poor acceleration and 
lousy idle.  This caused some fualt codes to be registered, but they were 
not true indicators of the problem.  For example the code said O2 sensor, 
but this was just caused by the ECU trying to keep the motor running.  
Good luck!