February 2016
Hey, hoping someone can narrow down the issue for me, before I decide to take car to a local garage or Audi dealership where I bought it.
Came into contact with debris on motorway, which made a bit of noise but didn't think anything of it as no damage seen and car looked and felt fine afterwards.
Fast forward 1 week and 500 miles later, there is a vibration (I can feel it under the centre front of car and drivers seat) and there's a noise originating from the front passenger side wheel. A bit like the 'wump wump wump' you get from a flat. Except the tyre isn't flat. Vibration occurs at same time as noise.
Car driving ok otherwise, not pulling significantly. Only done 30k so guessing I've damaged something when running over debris.
Open to suggestions on what could have happened?
Cheers Lisa
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Hello, i am from denmark, i hope you guys can help me with this car. I will try to make my language so you can understand what i have tryed so far and what the problem is.
The problem : when the car is cold/ the engine is cold i have to turn over a lot off times before it fires up, when it does fires up the engine is runs badly for 10 secounds and some little white comes at the exhaust. The colder weather -> harder to start. When it first has fired uo for 30 secounds i start totally normally after that, it is allwayd the frist time firing up after it had stand still for some hours.
Also there is wery loss of power at the low rpm, nothing happens if you give fuld throttle from 1000 rpm to 2200 rpm, and also after 2200 rpm i dosent think the car seems fast enough.
The injectors have been tested at bosch
The starter goes fast enough
Batteri condition is good
The engine has been cleaned inside with a lot off different products
Glow plugs has been changed
Timning belt is checked and is correct
Live data on turbo, high pressure pump( when it cranks ) is ok, egr valve is tried to blocked off ( still starts badly first time)
And finally a compression test on all 4 cylinders : 20 bar on cold engine, is that enough??
We also have had a camera inside cylinder and it looks lile it was new.
Hope you understand, if you habe guestions or answer please write so i can understand ( techical words )
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