Hi, My formerly, till this afternoon, trusty old steed 1995 vintage, was going fine till I parked up and went to re-light a few hours later and simply no-go!.
A bit of investigation revealed that there was no sparks to be found anywhere. Fortunately I happened to have some tools with me and a multi meter and discovered that there were around 11 volts on the two coil primary windings. I was offered a lift back home and I seemed to remember that some Audis had problems with ignition coil failures so with not that much to loose, I took the coil off and bought it back home and a few checks with a multi meter revealed the right , according the Haynes manual, resistance's.
However I connected the coil across a small 12 volt battery and took another bit of wire from the HT output terminal and formed a small "spark gap" with that to one of the other primary terminals, and when you "flick" the wire from the battery onto the primary terminals there is only a tiny feeble 1 millimetre long spark.
I would have thought that this should be a lot more than that and suspect that perhaps the coil has "shorted turns" perhaps?.
Anyone else had a similar experience with this sort of problem on these cars?.
TIA....