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coil failure

G Gregbritz
I havent had my car for very long, i have probably driven about 2000kms and I am onto my third coil! The first one might have been damaged by over tightening the terminal blocks, it looked as though the oil leaked out. The first time I was lucky and i managed to get home, just! The 2nd coil just died, no miss fire nothing just dead. When I changed both of the coils I just transfered the wires over, keeping track of th positive. After a drive for about an hour or so the coil is to hot to touch.

I am a little concerned that something else is causing the failures. Any body got any ideas.

The motor is a stock 1600 single port motor.

The motor is being pulled at the end of next week for the Subaru motor, so I am not going to loose any sleep over this problem, just would like to know why.
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G Gregbritz
I havent had my car for very long, i have probably driven about 2000kms and I am onto my third coil! The first one might have been damaged by over tightening the terminal blocks, it looked as though the oil leaked out. The first time I was lucky and i managed to get home, just! The 2nd coil just died, no miss fire nothing just dead. When I changed both of the coils I just transfered the wires over, keeping track of th positive. After a drive for about an hour or so the coil is to hot to touch.

I am a little concerned that something else is causing the failures. Any body got any ideas.

The motor is a stock 1600 single port motor.

The motor is being pulled at the end of next week for the Subaru motor, so I am not going to loose any sleep over this problem, just would like to know why.
FM Former Member
Just a stab in the dark here as I'm pretty much clueless on VW engines... Some coils are designed to work with a ballast resistor. Without the resistor inline, the coil will fry pretty quickly. The resistor steps the current down after the car is running - saves wear on the coil but gives full bang on startup as the resistor is bypassed when you crank the engine.

Off-hand, I recall my 68 Chevy pickup having a ballast resistor. Also my buddies BMW 2002 had one. The trick here is to make sure you don't mix and match parts. If you have a coil that wants NO resistor, make sure the car doesn't have one in-line. If you have a coil that DOES need a resistor, running without one will give you a pretty short life-span.

angela
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