Was it the right cap and rotor? They are not really visibly different. The parts guy may have been wrong.
Chad Rebuck <[email protected]> wrote: >I put a brand new cap/rotor on the car a couple days ago. Yesterday I >removed the cap to have a look and found the rotor had torn up the contact >points on the cap. There was metal dust all over the place in there. The >rotor was on there solid and had not come loose. I only drove the car a >total of maybe 15 minutes since installing the cap. The distributor shaft >seems to have a very slight amount of play but I can't see how it would >move enough to cause the rotor to hit every distributor contact. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: a2-16v-list [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Matthew Yip >> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 12:35 PM >> To: Volkswagen a2 16v discussion list >> Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] distributor cap and tires >> >> It's funny how these wear items, well, wear - I put probably 12K on my >> last 16v and was complaining that it ran poorly with bad fuel economy. >> Why? Because the idiot owner (looks in mirror) hadn't performed a tune-up >> in over a year. I'd check the distributor shaft to make sure it isn't >> wobbling a bit with old age - I wobble with old age and it's not pretty. >> >> >_______________________________________________ >a2-16v-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list >For list archives, see listinfo link above. _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
