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Hi, can anyone please tell me where the TCI-H SWITCH UNIT (spark amplifier) is located cant seem to find it? Thanks ALL FIXED!!!!! YEY!!!!

My very much loved corrado is letting me down? Just before christmas i was driving along quite happily and my car seemed to stall i tried to bump it (as i was on a dual carriage way) but nothing happened so i managed to coast over to the layby! and there i sat for about 1/2 an hour my husband arrived and took out some of the fuses etc and gave it a quick look over and could see nothing obvious and then all of a sudden it seemed to run so off we went. Since then its been a non runner she sometimes starts up and runs fine but after about 5 mins cuts out and we cant get her started?? we've checked all the relays and they seem fine? they were a bit wet as i seem to have quite a bad leak, but all dried out now, it has fuel all the obvious things have been checked so we are racking our brains to think of what it could be? The car has full electrics working and the starter turns fine, fuel pump primes etc, the alarm is a clifford and is in valet mode as i thought it may of been that, but as i remember i think the immobiliser was starter interrupt and that works, the ecu control relay has been changed, not that! the ignition switch has been changed not that! and we have now changed the distributor and its not starting at all now!!! We have now been informed it could be the ignition module on the engine? Does any one know where this is?? ALL FIXED!!!! YEY!!!

Sorry i'm new to this site! there is another post under my user, but quickly to summarise, the car will start first time and run perfectly but after a few minutes it will just stall !!!!, leaving dash lights lit up, at this point it turns over but will not fire into life, all the cars electrics ie. lights windows etc work fine, the alarm is a clifford and is in valet mode, and i believe the immobilizer is just a starter interrupt and thats fine, it just like someone has switched the fuel off or something, thoughts are if it turns over the dizzy will spin as this is all mechanical, there is power and a good spark so this leaves the electronic injection side of things controlling fuel possibly causing a fault, but because when it runs it runs fine, its really hard to pin point something, cuz obviously to run everything needs to work, so must be something silly and small maybe. i had replaced the electronic switch at the bottom of the ignition barrel as i have been told these can be iffy on numerous vw models and what i think is the ecu control relay ( no.30 in location 3) as apparently this can play up as i think it controls power to ecu, but again she runs for a few minutes, stalls then just turns over, until the nxt day when it does the same. any help, it boggles me

I am still trying to fix my car!!! its driving us mental we have bought the ECU relay and tried it and the thing still doesn't work!!! :x We tried the ignition bit as some of you kindly suggested and that didn't work either :( [/size] Any one else out there that can shed some light??? ALL FIXED YEY!!!!!!! Please see my other posts for more details!!!

Please can someone help me!! :cry: My very much loved corrado is letting me down? just before christmas i was driving along quite happily and my car seemed to stall i tried to bump it (as i was on a dual carriage way) but nothing happened so i managed to coast over to the layby! and there i sat for about 1/2 an hour my husband arrived and took out some of the fuses etc and gave it a quick look over and could see nothing obvious and then all of a sudden it seemed to run so off we went. Since then its been a non runner she sometimes starts up and runs fine but after about 5 mins cuts out and we cant get her started?? we've checked all the relays and they seem fine? they were a bit wet as i seem to have quite a bad leak, but all dried out now, it has fuel all the obvious things have been checked so we are racking our brains to think of what it could be? update Spoke to my husband, he said, the car has full electrics working and the starter turns fine, fuel pump primes etc, the alarm is a clifford and is in valet mode as i thought it may of been that, but as i remember i think the immobiliser was starter interrupt and that works, his thought was the ecu control relay as its known to be a common vw fault as suffers from dry solder joints, but unsure which one it was so he took all of them out opened them up and cleaned and checked with an electrical solvent spray, dried out and replaced, started run till it started to get warm then just stalls as if someone turns fuel off, it is a weird one because on the occasions it does start it runs spot on, so puts you off thinking its ecu, coil, leads, fuel pump etc etc, as it wouldnt run right. NEW - Tried ignition not that started straight up sounds great then after 10 mins exactly cuts out!!! ALL FIXED YEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!