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Originally Posted by RICKY D

The 8 has intermittently been feeling down in power whilst simultaneously flashing an EML and mis firing. I suspect it’s a coil pack but could it be anything else? Do the coil packs just die when they get old on these or could there be an underlying issue that causes them to go?

I had a coil pack fail recently, possibly due to the car not having been driven since April last year. I didn't get any warning lights, but it just felt like you were driving on twenty pence pieces. Scanned it, got the misfire error code, so swapped the coil pack with another and took it for a drive. Rescanned it, and the error code was not against a different cylinder.