nappin

My CEL was stable and not flashing. If the CEL is flashing, your engine is about to go byebye and you NEED to pull over NOW! Weird. I'd definitely have the dealer check it out. Never heard of it happening just on start up though.

AU Tiger

It sounds like what happened to me in my 4Runner. I think I had water in my gas. It was a very intermittent problem. The truck shuddered and felt like it was dying. Sometimes it died and I restarted it with no problem. To fix it, I ran the tank down low and poured in a bottle of water drier (or remover, or whatever its called). It fixed the problem. The drier is mostly alcohol. I did it when the tank was low to maximize the drying affect.

David

nappin

damn cheapo gas stations...

NIEMALS FOLGEN S4

I'm embarrased to say 3886mi as of now, hope to add about 1000mi by Sunday and set an appointment for my first oilchange next week or so. Its Leased so limited to 1000mi/mo. Oil is still see through, slight darkening and 3/4 up on the scale.

work has been hectik can't keep up with days/dates. Will be back from Beach on Saturday, Meet you on Sunday the 18th at the Rock between 8:30 and 9am same place as before. Just bought the G-Timer today also have the old version. Will have the camera mount as well.

Allan

NIEMALS FOLGEN S4

You can crash at my house at least on Saturday night and park in my Garage. Can go out for a good steak dinner. If I come back on friday you can stay friday night as well. Will let you know ASAP. Just forgive the condition of my house a little untidy :-(

Allan

BillK

The flashing CEL sets fault codes that can be read by the dealer's VAG tool.

They too may tell you it's just a bad tank of gas, but at least you'll know for sure.