Tuesday, 11 April 2006

When Coil Packs Go Bad I was driving to work this morning in my Audi and it felt really really rough. The car made weird noises, it vibrated as I was driving, it had a horrible idle, it laboured as I accelerated. It just didn't feel right. I called the good people at Scotts Audi and described the symptoms. The dude seemed like he had seen this problem before and told me to take the car into the Service Center asap. I dropped the car off. The guy said that it was "misfiring". Hmmm, something to do with the spark plugs maybe? The dude had also mentioned Coil Packs. Hmmm - what's that? I did a search and found the following What are coil packs? A coil pack sits on top of each cylinder of the engine and serves as the ignition coil to fire the cylinder. Coil packs have been used for a number of years and by a number of different manufacturers. Makes sense. Definitly related to the spark plugs. Reading the info on that site was a bit of a worry. I spent the morning fretting about my little 4 wheeled friend.. The guys called me back a bit after midday with good news. It indeed was a failed Coil Pack and now it's fixed. Cost to Frank = $0 w00t! Gotta love warranty work!  [listening to: Gold Digger - Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx ] 9:33:29 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

I suck at Chess I played a game of chess at RedHotPawn following Cameron's call for players, and he whipped my ass in 13 moves. Behold the carnage: Portable Game Notation (PGN) [Event "Challenge"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2006.04.03"] [Round "?"] [White "frankarr"] [Black "cameronreilly"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "1948561"] 1. a4 e5 2. Ng1f3 Nb8c6 3. Nf3g5 Qd8xg5 4. Nb1a3 d5 5. g3 Bc8g4 6. Bf1g2 O-O-O 7. Na3b5 a6 8. Nb5c3 e4 9. Nc3xe4 dxe4 10. Bg2xe4 Rd8e8 11. Be4d3 Qg5d5 12. Ra1a3 Qd5xh1 0-1 Game Board frankarr   vs cameronreilly  Game Id 1948561 3:50:15 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Geek

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