John and List, I bought a unit from Hot Spark Ignition Products www.hot-spark.com Austin, Tx
I haven't installed it yet bought it months ago. Please tell me these aren't the guys you are talking about. Eric 68 Bug 62 Ghia, both topless. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Connolly, Aircooled.Net" Date: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:10 pm Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Compufire ignition (was Carberator) To: Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List > List, > > We have been selling the Compufire units for six or seven years. > About six > months ago, Compufire went bankrupt and was acquired by new > owners. I won't > bore the list with the extensive details, but the new owners are > effectively > Larry, Moe, and Curly, and have no clue on what they are doing. > Apparently > they thought it would be cool to own a new business, and are > really learning > as they go. Maybe they'll have a clue couple years, but right > now they are > morons. > > We had so many issues with defects and them not knowing what > they sent out > in what they received, that we finally wrote off the company and > resumed > carrying Pertronix, which we carried until around seven years > ago. > Ironically, we stopped carrying Pertronix van because the > Compufire quality > control was better, LOL. > > I cannot in good conscience sit here quietly and let people > think they are > getting a decent product with Compufire (now), when this is so > far from the > truth it's stupid. The most recent fiasco with Compufire was > that they > installed the little magnets in the rotor wheel upside down, so > the units > could not function. So you go to the headache of installing the > Compufire, > only to have it not work and wonder what else you broke. And if > you try to > contact Compufire to get a new magnet wheel, you get Larry, Moe, > or Curly on > the phone and you're tearing your hair out. They do not care > about your > situation, and they are to get your money. This is their > attitude, which is > why we dropped them like a hot rock > > Unless you are a glutton for punishment, at this point Pertronix > is the only > decent unit on the market which we can recommend. I strongly > discourage the > use of Compufire, or any of the other Chinese manufactured > copies of these > points replacement devices. One of the main advantages of > Pertronix is that > many of their units are available in six Volt versions, which we > do stock. > > John > Aircooled.Net Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw > _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
