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On 6 Oct 2001, at 1:28, Mike Wodkowski wrote: > tried to locate the source of my run-on, which was not wiring related, we > don't think, unless there's some strange hidden thing going on somewhere. > I actually haven't had a run-on situation in a while. I thought it might be > a leaky injector, but if that was the case it'd stay that way, wouldn't it? > And it'd reflect on the mileage, which last checked was 27 on the freewaay, > including a major traffic jam. And hovering around 15mpg in the city, but > again, traffic has been crazy bad around here. A friend of mine took the car > to Massachusetts and logged 33mpg! But he said he was driving 55-60 mph the > whole way up in no traffic. That's really excellent mileage, I never get that good.... With the FI we usually don't have run-on problems because the key turn off both the gas and the spark. On rare occasions I've had a single "THUMP" a brief moment after turning the key off, but I've suspected my CDI ignition of giving off a orphan spark sometimes after shutdown. I don't know what else it could be.... - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org