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Offline whitegtidriver

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coil pack
« on: 17 September 2008, 19:29 »
hi anyone else had a coil pack let go. had to call out the aa this afternoon as the car broke down :angry:.. told by aa man that its quite comman, also had 246update  done yesterday now no revo will i have to pay full price again.
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Offline bacillus

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Re: coil pack
« Reply #1 on: 17 September 2008, 19:50 »
You just need to go to your revo dealer with the paper saying that VW reflashed you and he should reflash you for free. That being said, the dealer may charge you for half an hour's labour. 
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Offline 182_blue

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Re: coil pack
« Reply #2 on: 17 September 2008, 20:07 »
i have heard of quite a few coil packs going
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Re: coil pack
« Reply #3 on: 17 September 2008, 21:41 »
Me too, seems to be more the later one's than the early one's though.

As for Revo - visit your dealer, this happened to me and I got it re-loaded for free.
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Offline RedRobin

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Re: coil pack
« Reply #4 on: 17 September 2008, 23:55 »

....Some Revo dealers charge to reload and some don't. JKM now charges £25 IIRC.
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Offline Cass

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Re: coil pack
« Reply #5 on: 18 September 2008, 00:39 »
This was acommon proble with VW/Audis in the early 2000's - dealer should diagnose and replace as required. If you're out of warranty you may have to shout for dealer goodwill or stump up yourself :rolleyes:

Revo - should get it reloaded for free.

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Re: coil pack
« Reply #6 on: 18 September 2008, 01:16 »

....It's not up to Revo. Jim at JKM explained to me why he's felt he had to introduce a charge but I've forgotten the detail!! Sorry, but it seemed to make sense at the time, or at least I could see his point of view.

Naturally we would all prefer not to have to pay :undecided:
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Offline AlanD

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Re: coil pack
« Reply #7 on: 18 September 2008, 09:18 »
Coil packs where the devils work on the MK4, I think every MK4 owner has had the coil packs throw in the towl. Glad VW learnt from their mistakes lol  :rolleyes:
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Offline DanGB

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Re: coil pack
« Reply #8 on: 18 September 2008, 09:41 »
yep one of mine went up in smoke. a while back. Was an A or b revision i think.
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Offline whitegtidriver

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Re: coil pack
« Reply #9 on: 18 September 2008, 11:52 »
yes car is under vw extended warrenty, aa fitted new coil but as his laptop failed he couldnt bill me. shame that.
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