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    Engine Hesitation after short storage


    Car wasn’t driven for a couple of months battery died and charged a few times, started up, runs fine, then down the street it felt like it’s miss firing on a light load but zero codes, after a few minutes it’s fine of lower gear but high gear and low load engine is sputtering but it’s fine with normal cruising load, drop it a couple of gears and it feels fine. It seems to be using a crap load of gas, quarter tank in a 15~20 min drive on the highway. Threw in a bottle of fuel treatment/ stabilizer ( maybe 10% better).
    fuel filter and regulator is 1.5 years old
    25k miles since the injectors were sent to get serviced.
    30k on a new fuel pump.
    30k on new plugs and coils.

    any ideas what else I should look for?
    FYI, engine is boosted with active Autowerke kit

    #2
    I would drain all fuel and stabilizer, and start with a clean tank of gas. Adaptions may need to be reset

    Sent from my SM-G996U1 using Tapatalk

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      #3
      Originally posted by Lukem3 View Post
      I would drain all fuel and stabilizer, and start with a clean tank of gas. Adaptions may need to be reset

      Sent from my SM-G996U1 using Tapatalk
      Ugggghhh, that’s almost 3/4 of a tank to drain

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        #4
        Update:
        1 dead spark plug.
        don’t the plugs usually throw a code or not?

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          #5
          You would get a misfire code if it is registered enough times.

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            #6
            Originally posted by kokgo20 View Post

            Ugggghhh, that’s almost 3/4 of a tank to drain
            Crap. That's damn near a mortgage payment now.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Slideways View Post
              You would get a misfire code if it is registered enough times.
              Nothing
              zero Codes, I limped Home for 10~15 minutes and still zero codes

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                #8
                Originally posted by kokgo20 View Post

                Nothing
                zero Codes, I limped Home for 10~15 minutes and still zero codes
                So how did you know it was a bad plug?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by sapote View Post

                  So how did you know it was a bad plug?
                  I decided to check the coils since it felt like a miss fire, as I unplugged cylinder 6 nothing changed but the rest of cylinders made it worse, swapped coils with 1&6, 6 still dead, swapped plugs 1&6, 1 is dead, swapped the plug with an old one and bam we are back in business.

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