I had the wire from the coil to the distributor go bad so gradually that I really didn't know how bad of shape it was really in. Sometimes the car would take a lot of cranking to start and I couldn't figure out why. I did the resistance checks on all the wires and didn't see anything wrong. One day I couldn't start the car at all. I replaced the coil because the spark I saw on the plug was orange instead of blue. The coil didn't help. Then I replced the coil -> distributor wire and the spark was brigh blue again. The car had so much more power than before it was amazing I drove it for so long in that bad of shape. Anyway, that was in my 88 16v Scirocco many, many years ago. So you may want to check your wires before suspecting the coil. Was the car running recently?
Chad On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Mark Reda wrote: > Hey guys, > I'm having some problems with my Jetta and I'm narrowing it down to an > ignition prob. > Engine won't start at all. > Coil-Distributor wire resistance - Ok > Coil- Primary Resistance 1.1 (Bentley says 0.6-0.8 ohms) > Secondary Resistance 7500 (Bentley says 6500-8500 ohms) > > I'm not sure if my readings are correct because there are sooo many Ohm > settings on my multimeter. > I measured primary resisntace on Ohm setting 200 and I measured secondary on > Ohm setting 2000. > > I can smell gas fumes from the tail pipe, I also checked for spark by > removing a spark plug and grounding it to the block and there was spark > > Could it be the coil? > > Thanks, > Mark. > > > _______________________________________________ > A2-16v mailing list > [email protected] > http://maillist.myip.org/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v >
