Testing coilpacks
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Remove coilpack and then pull off rubber boot and visually check for any hairline cracks in the bakerlite material on the tip that covers the spark plug. If there is a crack throw away and replace it.
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I believe it is also possible for them to stop functioning properly internally rather than a structural failure. There must be a way of checking the current passing through the coil. Anyone got any ideas?
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Originally Posted by Subersonic
if you can pull them of with the engine running and there is no change in engine running thats the bad one. this method worked on my fto dont know if you can do it on a scoob
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WHEN YOUR HEAD HITS THE BONNET YOU KNOW IT IS WORKING? OUCH!
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Originally Posted by Subersonic
if you can pull them of with the engine running and there is no change in engine running thats the bad one. this method worked on my fto dont know if you can do it on a scoob
My experience with failed coil packs - had all of them go now - is they don't fail completely. Especially true if its down to the cracking thing. Most of the time the charge will still get through. Mine stuttered when taking up the power gently in 2nd and also very occasionally when under boost.
I did all the internal checks with a multimetre, sure the details were all on here, complete with diagrams. There were two different tests, all my coil packs passed these despite 2 being visibly badly cracked.
Replaced these and all was well, then several thousand miles later the problem returned, on inspection one of the remaining original two was cracking. Replaced this - problem solved.
Guess what happened a few thou later??
Car has run like a dream for the last 15k now since replacing, they all failed around the 75 - 80k
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