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help gti not firing on no 3 - 8/27/2006 4:09:05 PM

bobgfla

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hi everyone new to this board bought a 2003 golf gti 1.8 turbo ran fine to today started to skip and head not much power went and got 4 nwe spark plugs and head them download ed ,,,. says cat alyst efficiency below threshold and no 3 missfife detected so we changed all plugs and fixed broken air pump hose to vavle cover ( gos back toweds the turbo) dis conectd the battery to reset cumpeter , but still skips so checked spark goineg to no 3 and got no spark ,,,is this a cumpeter problem or a electeal problem why are we not geting spark to no 3 ?????

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RE: help gti not firing on no 3 - 8/27/2006 10:55:17 PM

bagel

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First welcome! Second, could be the ignition coil, they go bad, plug wire could be bad. That's all I know.

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