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Title: 1997 VW Polo distributor, bosch or marelli?
Post by: Khare on 04 April 2013, 22:00

As title. Friend's Polo burn out the HT lead and It needs a new set as well as new cap and rotor, but there's two types for different distributors. Anyone know which one is which for an R reg one?

Title: Re: 1997 VW Polo distributor, bosch or marelli?
Post by: itavaltalainen on 04 April 2013, 22:25

which engine is it then??
1.4 I4, 1.6 I4, 3.0 V6 TDI, 5.4 V8  :drool:

ideally post engine code and i can find out for you

Title: Re: 1997 VW Polo distributor, bosch or marelli?
Post by: Khare on 04 April 2013, 22:26

Yeah sorry, complete spaz.

1.4 8v. No idea on code.

Title: Re: 1997 VW Polo distributor, bosch or marelli?
Post by: analogue_rogue on 09 April 2013, 13:58

brown cap or black one?

if its a brown cap its bosch...

Title: Re: 1997 VW Polo distributor, bosch or marelli?
Post by: Khare on 09 April 2013, 22:36

Was an orange cap mate, Bosch in the end  :smiley:

Title: Re: 1997 VW Polo distributor, bosch or marelli?
Post by: golf-sib on 19 April 2013, 09:59

Always used a Bosch dizzy cap on all 6n's from memory.