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General => The garage => Topic started by: phildaint on 21 May 2009, 19:20

Title: missfire central
Post by: phildaint on 21 May 2009, 19:20

ok so my mk3 1.4 is missfireing and is impossible to drive. can anyone tell me how to find out weather its the dizzy cap, spark plugs etc just by looking/hearing things...

cheers, phil

Title: Re: missfire central
Post by: danny_p on 22 May 2009, 09:22

top favoret is allways plugs,    then you look at th eengine at night if you see blue flashes round the leads you need new leads.    if still dose dizzy cap and rotor arm.

TBH often best off just biteing the bullet and wanging the lot on.    my 16v got given the whole lot when i was putting it in,   din't know how old any  of it was and din't look fully optimal.   

IMO  dizzzy cap and rotorarm  should be changed the same time as leads anyway.    plugs  normaly get changed every other oil change