Slime covered coils and plugs

[Humungus1138]

My 2004 Cayenne started missing. This happened pretty much after I put some fuel in it that may have been bad. I tried using fuel treatment, gas dry, etc but it still kept missing. Finally the CEL went on, code reader pulls cylinder misfire on 2,3 and 5

 

since the car has 107k on it and has never had coils or plugs I figured it was time since I know that is a common cause if misfire.

 

when I did the job I discovered that the coils were covered in a oily slime as well as the spark plugs. Only two cylinders were basically clean. The plug threads were covered in this crap too

 

please pics. I'm assuming this is not normal but is it simply from having bad/cracked coils or is more going on? 

 

Spark plug gaskets come to mind.

 

im a decent amateur work on many of my vehicles, so any leads would be appreciated

 

regards

 

roger

 

 

 

 

[Loren]

 

Looks like some type of anti-seize to me. Clean it all off the best you can - no anti-seize is needed.

 

A huge percentage of misfires on the early Cayennes are due to bad coil packs. Porsche changed these several times in the early 2000's.

I would suggest you start by changing them all to the latest version.

[Humungus1138]

Thanks for the info

 

i have owned this one since 38k the coils I removed (in the pic) have the VW symbol on them so I assume they are original.

 

the plugs came out easy, too easy based on my experience for a car with original plugs and 107k so maybe you are right about that slime

 

i went ahead and changed them all (coils and plugs) and it's running great again. CEL still on but I assume that will go out or I will clear it

 

just hoping I'm not treating the symptom and not the disease and will end up with messy coils and plugs and misfires shortly 

 

roger

 

 

[Loren]

The CEL will go out (after some driving) if you have no more fault codes.

You can also clear the CEL and re-check for faults using a diagnostic tool.

[Humungus1138]

Yeah. I have the VAG code reader from Ross Tech from working on my Audis. Haven't bit the bullet to get the upgrade to read Porsche codes so all I can do with it on this car is OBD2 but I can still clear the DTCs

[ferri]

You have to short pin 3 and pin 7 on your obd plug. If you are a bit advanced in soldering.... no problem. Then you can read all modules, delete the fault codes, change everything, write new codes and so on.... with RossTech and its obd module like a Touareg

Edited May 17, 2017 by ferri

[Humungus1138]

Not sure I understand this, my OBD cable form my RossTech kit seems to work just fine pulling down OBD2, am I missing something?

[ferri]

I have soldered a small cable inside the obd2 plug from pin 3 to pin 7 so they are shorted (I have vag-com too). Believe me, it's much better than durametric, more logical to use.

[lewisweller]

7 minutes ago, ferri said:

I have soldered a small cable inside the obd2 plug from pin 3 to pin 7 so they are shorted (I have vag-com too). Believe me, it's much better than durametric, more logical to use.

I'm using Ross tech vcds also on my 06 ctt. I had No need to jump pins though as it read most common modules already on mine. I think as Mike zawowsky will testify the older cayenne was not so vagcom friendly. 

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