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Tue 18 Feb 2003 17:33
Mono-Motronic Audi/Pug/Citroen - Mole
Hello all,

I just thought I'd share a successful fix with you lot. I had an annoying idle surge on my '93 A80 which, after much faffing about, turned out to be the idle control motor. Anyway, Audi wanted £200 for it and the Audi breakers/GSF didn't have any 6-pin models. I tried a Citreon breaker and they had loads of 'em, so there's the tip; Mr Bosch used the same parts all over the place, if yours appears rare, try another manufacturer.
A quick question, despite the instructions on my Gunson FCR quoting my engine code (ABT), why can't I pull the fault codes from the ECU? Any other way of getting to 'em?
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Wed 19 Feb 2003 10:28
Mono-Motronic Audi/Pug/Citroen - Billy Whizz
Yep, certainly a good tip regarding sourcing seemingly rare parts (and one I have been using for a while).

On several cars I have had there is a sequence to use with the ingition key so the ECU fault codes are displayed as flashes on the dash board.

Then you have to decode the flashes. I got all my info from searching on internet, mainly owners clubs from the states.

try
www.audiclub.co.uk
20v.org/
www.audioc.force9.co.uk

Billy
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