Next time I'll use a genuine part...

[Evilgoat]

Off work today for one reason and another.

Jumped in the car to go retreive food and pills, turn the keys

Starts, followed byt Rattle rattle clatter BANG! rattle stop Beeeep! Beeeep! followed by 'ECU FAULT' on the dash  :?

Went to look what the rattle is and noticed the Dizzy cap is sat at an 'interesting angle. Pull it off and low and behold, rotor arm in 4 bits. Nothing to damage under there thankfully so new rotor arm retreieved from Portsmouth Audi (cable tie used to bodge old arm) who had never heard of this happening before, when I mentioned it came from a well known motoring chain he didnt seem surprised and reccomended I order a genuine Bosch or Audi dizzy cap too. Still a genuine part is £5 as opposed to £2.45 for the one I had on there. I know next time.

[thermidorthelobster]

I've been told by a few people to stick to genuine parts if it's a Bosch rotor arm;  the copies look perfectly OK but tend to fail, sometimes in a non-obvious way, which can leave you tearing your hair out.