Help flashing cell

[kingkong1]

I was driving to work to day going about 60 mph. i went to pass someone and floored it. It hesitated and then i saw a flashing cell. I pulled over right away and turned off the car. i waited a minute and turned it back on. It was fine. What could this be?
Thank you
Dom

ps should i be driving the car?

[BigZ67]

haha, probably the esp light. hit your esp button and see if that is the light you are talking about. if it is no biggie, just probably lost traction as you were flooring it.

[Audi Skate Snow]

STOP DRIVING!!!!!!!!!!!! A flashing CEL is usualy a bad thing. Even if it has stoped i would get it checked out ASAP.

[A4Jared]

Its probably misfires, get a VAG and check it out.

[A4Shizl]

Originally posted by BigZ67
haha, probably the esp light. hit your esp button and see if that is the light you are talking about. if it is no biggie, just probably lost traction as you were flooring it.

if the roads were slick.. then this ^^^ is your answer... otherwise, it could be a coil pack... which is still no big deal.

[dagod]

Originally posted by BigZ67
haha, probably the esp light. hit your esp button and see if that is the light you are talking about. if it is no biggie, just probably lost traction as you were flooring it.

he said he was going 60 mph so i don't think he would have lost traction when he floored it.

i would vag-com as said above


you might want to search this forum for "flashing cel" i just did and it looks like it could be coilpacks.

[teutonic_blur]

Sounds like Coil-o Pack-o to me...

[ShogunR32]

Don't drive the car! Get it checked out.

[A4Jared]

You only shouldn't drive your car when the flashing MIL is constant. If it happened when he WOT'd its most likely a misfires in which case the CP will eventually go bad but its ok to drive on (obviously only until the CP dies).

In any event, it might be worth it to buy 1 or 2 spare CPs and like I said before get a hold of VAG or ProDiag and check it out.

Originally posted by GTRchop88
Don't drive the car! Get it checked out.

[kingkong1]

Well the CEL hasen't turned on again. I went to autozone to run the Vag and no codes where stored. What does that mean. Would coil packs go bad after 14k? I guess i should pick some up. How much do they cost?
Thanks Dom

[mcpath]

no code mean prob saw esp.