Hey guys, I'm that new guy who recently bought a P5 as my daily driver.
Needless to say I drive my car pretty hard.
I take care of it, but I do like to find redline/etc. It has 156k, I bought about 8 months ago with 144k.
Its been taken care of before I got it, It always got its tune-ups, problems fixed, etc.
Anyway, The past 6ish months I *thought* I was feeling a slight *burples* while sitting in cruise or just normal driving. It finally hit where the car lost power, and even with my foot on the floor, would NOT go above the speed I was currently driving. Then it gave me bucking issues, power returned, but my CEL was flashing at me. FastForward it started coming & going, only this time with much more force and often. Trying to idle when warmed up was getting kinda scary. (I should note that when I checked my plugs, the lower sections on the wire boots broke off, They looked to be aftermarket junk, Thats when the problems started even more. I also noticed the car has NGK Iridium platinum plugs.)
Bought OEM plugs and wires, and that solved A LOT of the issues, but Im still getting hesitant bumps... Infact, the VERY MORNING AFTER I replaced my plugs/wires, I was sitting in slow moving traffic, in 2nd gear- went WOT (Which obviously lugged the engine... I do that often.) and I got a misfire SO BAD, I couldn't drive, I had to turn the car off and then on to make it go away.
I should note that when I was replacing the plugs, one coilpack felt/sounded solid, but the other one had a "springy" "light bulb filament" "boing" noise when I lightly shook it.
Ive been driving it very soft, and not using cruise control (Seems to be the biggest risk of having the CEL come on)
I used to JUST have a "Gross evap leak" CEL, but now with this misfire, its just adding to it, and I need to make this car pass emmisions (I usually can keep the "evap leak" at bay long enough to pass emmisions...)
Thanks again!
Needless to say I drive my car pretty hard.
I take care of it, but I do like to find redline/etc. It has 156k, I bought about 8 months ago with 144k.
Its been taken care of before I got it, It always got its tune-ups, problems fixed, etc.
Anyway, The past 6ish months I *thought* I was feeling a slight *burples* while sitting in cruise or just normal driving. It finally hit where the car lost power, and even with my foot on the floor, would NOT go above the speed I was currently driving. Then it gave me bucking issues, power returned, but my CEL was flashing at me. FastForward it started coming & going, only this time with much more force and often. Trying to idle when warmed up was getting kinda scary. (I should note that when I checked my plugs, the lower sections on the wire boots broke off, They looked to be aftermarket junk, Thats when the problems started even more. I also noticed the car has NGK Iridium platinum plugs.)
Bought OEM plugs and wires, and that solved A LOT of the issues, but Im still getting hesitant bumps... Infact, the VERY MORNING AFTER I replaced my plugs/wires, I was sitting in slow moving traffic, in 2nd gear- went WOT (Which obviously lugged the engine... I do that often.) and I got a misfire SO BAD, I couldn't drive, I had to turn the car off and then on to make it go away.
I should note that when I was replacing the plugs, one coilpack felt/sounded solid, but the other one had a "springy" "light bulb filament" "boing" noise when I lightly shook it.
Ive been driving it very soft, and not using cruise control (Seems to be the biggest risk of having the CEL come on)
I used to JUST have a "Gross evap leak" CEL, but now with this misfire, its just adding to it, and I need to make this car pass emmisions (I usually can keep the "evap leak" at bay long enough to pass emmisions...)
Thanks again!