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2CViking
viking bastard
Joined: April 18th, 2009, 11:43 am
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Location: Meneac, Bretagne France
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 Coil 2 year old coil (20.000 clicks) failed today. Did a 25 km trip, stopped for 5 mins and couldn't start again. Lifted the bonnet, nothing wrong. Swapped the wires on the coil and pulled the starter cable. Voila started straight away, why?
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| November 23rd, 2013, 2:46 pm |
 
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Sean
Firing on two.
Joined: April 22nd, 2009, 11:06 pm
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Location: Ecosse
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Re: Coil coil or Plugs? thats the old trick for getting the plugs to wear evenly, or if its not been done as routine it gets the car started by making the other plug work for a living.
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| November 23rd, 2013, 3:00 pm |
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2CViking
viking bastard
Joined: April 18th, 2009, 11:43 am
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Location: Meneac, Bretagne France
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Re: Coil No plugs replaced just before heading for Spain. Done bugger all same for leads?
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lpgo
Firing on 1-2 Spark
Joined: November 8th, 2009, 5:42 pm
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Location: NL
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Re: Coil
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| November 23rd, 2013, 3:33 pm |
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Sean
Firing on two.
Joined: April 22nd, 2009, 11:06 pm
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Re: Coil Viking why is it always your car that defies all the usual logic  :D Did you actually look at the plugs lately? Which plugs do you run? The 3000km to Spain and back would be enough to kill off equiems in my experience ( never liked them) - and as your van seems to be doing other odd things perhaps it was plug fouling?
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| November 23rd, 2013, 5:54 pm |
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2CViking
viking bastard
Joined: April 18th, 2009, 11:43 am
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Location: Meneac, Bretagne France
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Re: Coil Pull them out..  That's a massive job  Running NGK.... Service coming up before leaving for Denmark at Christmas
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| November 23rd, 2013, 8:11 pm |
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2CViking
viking bastard
Joined: April 18th, 2009, 11:43 am
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Location: Meneac, Bretagne France
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Re: Coil Sean wrote: Viking why is it always your car that defies all the usual logic :D? B'kors I do things right 
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lpgo
Firing on 1-2 Spark
Joined: November 8th, 2009, 5:42 pm
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Location: NL
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Re: Coil Take Champions then....
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| November 23rd, 2013, 9:20 pm |
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nodmoz
scared of the dark
Joined: December 11th, 2008, 11:36 pm
Posts: 197
Location: Staffs, UK
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Re: Coil Perhaps it's just fucked?
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Pony
Firing on two.
Joined: January 16th, 2010, 5:15 pm
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Re: Coil I only now use Harley Coils by Roy ecas
and have been using them for in excess of 7 years
the yellow coil has never failed me even under 500 mm of water
and have fitted more than 100 of them
Chuck the Citroen shit in the rubbish
invest and move up!!
PS i never fit points sets as too many condensers Fail and i cant be arsed to do a job twice
previously 123 and now i will start going onto 12 Spark
pony
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