I can't be certain but some measurements of the cap and rotor seemed to match the old ones. I got some off brand from rock auto called auto tune because they were on clearance... I put the old cap and rotor back on for now. On Aug 16, 2014 12:20 PM, "John Lagnese" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
