I've been trying to figure out while my car will die after a cold start for about 3 minutes. I'm not getting any warning lights on. Then today it died on me (after driving for about 10 minutes) while driving. I'm starting to look at the IAC valve and just looked under to find oil right behind my idler pulley.

what do you guys think it's from?

 

its typical on these cars. but that does'nt mean it good, you just need a new front main seal.

 

Pretty common to find slight oil seepage built up w/ road grime on a 12 year old car. It's nothing to worry about.

 

do you think this has anything to do with my cold start car troubles?

 

Doubt it has anything to do with cold start issues, that is probably a seperate problem. My car has seepage like that as well.. until it starts leaving puddles on the driveway, I'm not worried about it.

 

negatory.

Describe the problem a little better.

 

No, that will not have anything to do with that. I'd lean towards some adjustment of the IAC or TPS, fueling, and maybe ignition related..like in a short somewhere to the coil or something like that if it just dies while going down the road for no reason.

 

from an earlier thread about my problems...

95 z28 A4 94k miles. On a cold start, it starts slow. Car will idle at 500 at a stop in drive and seems like it wants to die, I'll give it some gas. When I start it up to let it warm up it died this morning. Car has stalled once and while driving from a red light on soft throttole it died real quick but came back to life with a little gas. Check engine light came on, but went away when I started the car up again that afternoon. No other lights have come on at all. I've had the car for about 300 miles only.

I've done some searching and today I'm going to check the EGR, IAC, vacume leaks and alternator. I don't have a scanning tool right now and have parts to change cap/rotor/plugs/wires, but won't get around 'til next weekend.

All I need are just some suggestions an anything else I should check. Anybody else with similar problems? How'd you fix it?