During start up- rough lide/misfire

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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Shoppinit » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:29 pm

That rings a vague bell. Could be that you get that DTC even when just one plays up.
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by RS6NOR » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:35 pm

Shoppinit wrote:
Test the air flow and lambda values, that will tell you if you have a leak.

Have you seen any checksum errors? The ABT maps are notorious for corrupting the ECU after a while.
Do you have short desciption of how to run the lambda and airflow test and an overview of whant values to expect if ok and if there is a vacuum leak?

I have not seen a checksum error.

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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Shoppinit » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:37 pm

Something is bothering me. I am pretty sure that the car doesn't listen for misfires when warming up. The misfire must be being logged when it is already warmed up.
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Shoppinit » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:41 pm

RS6NOR wrote:
Shoppinit wrote: Do you have short desciption of how to run the lambda and airflow test and an overview of whant values to expect if ok and if there is a vacuum leak?
Do you know how to log stuff with the vagcom?
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by RS6NOR » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:46 pm

Shoppinit wrote:Something is bothering me. I am pretty sure that the car doesn't listen for misfires when warming up. The misfire must be being logged when it is already warmed up.
It could be. As i mention is the misfire code only popping up when i put it in drive and add trottle. I have only tried that i couple of times. So bottom line is that the misfire is not comming if i let i idle in N.

The rough idle does not cause the rpm to fluctuate much, just a little bit (+/- 150 rpm). I have tried to add trottle when in idle just after start up and it revs up. When using a little bit of trottle the rough idle seems to go away faster. Ref. Your idea of a leakng injector... Maybe that could A path to follow. Then i am tempted to change all coils and injector since the car has been running 140k KM.

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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by RS6NOR » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:50 pm

Shoppinit wrote:
RS6NOR wrote:
Shoppinit wrote: Do you have short desciption of how to run the lambda and airflow test and an overview of whant values to expect if ok and if there is a vacuum leak?
Do you know how to log stuff with the vagcom?
I am not an expert. I am getting help from a friend with a VAGCOM and he has been using t for some time, but he is not and expert on RS6.

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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Shoppinit » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:55 pm

OK. If you connect to the engine with the Vagcom, like you did to read the fault codes, then you can choose measuring blocks. Select groups 001, 002, and 032. You will see the values in the boxes. Click on log, then start and it will write all that data into a .CSV file.

Log it from cold, then drive it.

Don't reset DTC, this will zero out your trim values and you will have to drive a few km before they get learned again.
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by RS6NOR » Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:15 pm

Shoppinit wrote:OK. If you connect to the engine with the vagcom, like you did to read the fault codes, then you can choose measuring blocks. Select groups 001, 002, and 032. You will see the values in the boxes. Click on log, then start and it will write all that data into a .CSV file.

Log it from cold, then drive it.

Don't reset DTC, this will zero out your trim values and you will have to drive a few km before they get learned again.
I will try to get the data logged tomorrow morning and i will post the .csv files here... Hope you could have a look at it. Thanks i advance..

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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Shoppinit » Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:17 pm

No probs.
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Ryan_Pestell » Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:11 pm

i would say coil packs.
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by swannny » Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:26 pm

is yours running ok now Ryan?

thats a few people i've heard of coil packs packing up, but its to be expected on certain cars, especially the grief they get on ours!
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Ryan_Pestell » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:46 pm

Yes running perfect now cheers.

Unsure if it's age related or tuning related, but I doubt tuners increase the dwell time on the ignition map.

So would conclude its just a mixture of heat and age, as engine mounted coils always suffer with heat dissipation, and the rs6 creates the highest amount of engine heat of any car I've owned being shoe horned into that bay
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by RS6NOR » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:09 pm

I have now updated the post with data from the Vagcom logging session that was conducted easiler today. The data can be found in the first post i did.

I hope the data can help you guiding me in the direction of the root cause of my problem

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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Shoppinit » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:33 pm

The MAF values and trim values look normal. No clues there. Probably no vacuum leak.

At least that eliminates some causes.

What are we left with?

More likely causes:
Bad injector(s)
Bad coil pack(s)

Unlikely causes:
Bad/Fake plugs
Bad fuel - has your car been off the road for a while?
N80 / Active carbon filter - might be worth testing.
ECU defect

You can test the injectors. I wonder if it's worth pulling the injectors and sending them for cleaning / testing?

I think I would be tempted to swap the coil packs out.
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Re: During start up- rough lide/misfire

Post by Ryan_Pestell » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:33 pm

I still think coil or coil's and the missfire has killed the lambda's (Also quite common)
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