rentadate

Happened with the Jetta that my brother bought from my ex-girlfriend. It leaked oil and we couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Then one day we noticed it stopped. Figured it fixed itself. Problem is that the car started running intermittently. It would run fine one day, and then not the next. One day on the way to work, my brother hit a small puddle on the road, and the thing died and started after much coxing and then died when we got it to our store. Never started again. On a day, when it wasn't raining we tested the spark, and nothing. There were tons of fault codes saying misfiring. Tracked down the coil and the thing was dead...with oil all over it. oil leak solved as well as the reason for not working.

It happens I guess. Never had a problem with coils until then. But I'll remember that incident.

abossana

thanks for the help everyone. im almost positive the coil is my problem. i ordered a msd blaster high vibraion coil this morning and will install later today.

74er

I replaced mine with a MSD blaster but also put in the ballast resister. MSD said this was required if you are using non-MSD ignition box. Not sure what the bad side is if not used but I didn't want to find out. Hopefully I'll get the MSD box before long.

rentadate

I have an MSD ignition unit. Works awesome! Car starts and goes when I want it to. I used the regular black coil and have had no problems. As far as I know a coil is a coil.