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Offline qureshia

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Coil packs - made from cheese ??
« on: 18 January 2010, 21:58 »
Whilst dropping the kids off at school my wife’s car started to stutter and the dreaded check engine light came on.   :angry:

Feels like it is running on three cylinders

Car is booked in for service tomorrow – guessing it is the “made from cheese” coil packs ?
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Re: Coil packs - made from cheese ??
« Reply #1 on: 19 January 2010, 17:27 »
coil pack 3 - £89 - plus big service and brake fluid

drives lovely now

new tyres in the next 2 days as well  :smug: :smug:
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Re: Coil packs - made from cheese ??
« Reply #2 on: 19 January 2010, 19:23 »
£89?!  Was that a fitted price or part only?
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Re: Coil packs - made from cheese ??
« Reply #3 on: 19 January 2010, 20:59 »
just one fitted

was having a service at the time, so guess labour charge should have been covered
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Re: Coil packs - made from cheese ??
« Reply #4 on: 19 January 2010, 21:33 »
Hmm I 1.8T ones were about £30 part only.  Can't see why the 2.0T ones are that much more expensive..

Was this a main dealer - if so I'm afraid the computer tells them how much time to charge for each job.  Not called stealers for nothing...
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Re: Coil packs - made from cheese ??
« Reply #5 on: 20 January 2010, 00:18 »
Supposedly if one coil pack fails, it's likely the others need replacing.
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Re: Coil packs - made from cheese ??
« Reply #6 on: 20 January 2010, 09:37 »

^^^^^^^^^ There has been debate about this elsewhere.

My indy garage says replacing after a failure isn't necessary.
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