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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Simpson on 22 February 2012, 08:53

Title: mark 3 cab wont start coil?
Post by: Simpson on 22 February 2012, 08:53

So tried starting the cab i have been given. Its the lovely 1.8 single point injection engine!

Anyway it had been sat for months and turns over, I can hear an arching spark so think it might be the coil. The plastic bit of the coil has come away from the alloy base at the top as the screws have corroded and broken off. Does this need to be tight to the alloy to provide an earth?

Thanks

Title: Re: mark 3 cab wont start coil?
Post by: wakeskater on 22 February 2012, 09:27

put it this way  i keep a spare coil in the boot    by the sounds of it it needs a new one  they do fail all to often

Title: Re: mark 3 cab wont start coil?
Post by: Simpson on 22 February 2012, 11:33

aye thats what i thought, will do