mikehiow

I did a bit more investigation this evening, I tried grounding each "faulty" lead with a screwdriver, and got nothing but the most miniscule spark when rubbed against a grounding point. Down to VW tomorrow for a new coilpack

If the chain has slipped, is it likely to be just one tooth, what about valves? Is the VR6 an "interference" engine?

It was dark, I may have that bit wrong. Although, it was working fine before, so I'm not sure that'll be it

Thanks, the engine has 129K on it - the timing chain thing is quite worrying - it's been mentioned on the corrado forum that I should be checking the top tensioner, I'll have to dig through the receipts/service history tomorrow. Although, I'm almost certain that the knocking wasn't there previous to tonight's problems. What hadn't occurred to me already, was that this knocking, could infact be arching somewhere (perhaps internally to the coil pack?) Are each of the 3 coils replaceable individually, or is it a whole new coil pack? No arching visible when pulling the apparently two affected lea

Evening all, after a 10 minute spirited drive this evening, I noticed something strange, the engine/exhaust note went very deep (and "gurgley", almost tractor like) and the engine felt very sluggish. I crawled the extra mile home - and opened up the bonnet, there appears to be a slight knocking noise and the oil is down to about 4mm showing on the dip stick (it wasn't this low when I bought it a few days back) - edit: an after thought, that was immediately after stopping, a lot of oil would have still been around the engine - this may not be a cause for concern? Now, it sounds a bit to me like