Comments on: More car crap http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/05/26/more-car-crap/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:12:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jen http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/05/26/more-car-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Jen Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:48:59 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/05/26/more-car-crap/#comment-56 Blown ignition coil eh? Years ago when I had a 1994 VW Passat the engine would suddenly die. The car had 26,000 miles on it, just past the 2 year/24,000 bumper to bumper. VW was very very cool about it and fudged the record to have it fixed under warranty work. First they replaced the fuel pump, no dice - car died again on I-95 at 80mph during early morning commute. Ouf da. VW then decided it was the coil and replaced that, problem was cleared up. Thing is - if the coil fails and one of the cylinders doesn't go, yes that will make the engine run rough, but won't it smooth out under acceleration when the RPMs increase? The third cylinder was always problematic in my '72 Beetle and frequently would die but always smoothed out under load. Clearly Mercedes teh sux0r for being such a bitch to you. I would trade the thing in, and upgrade to your old Saturn that runs reliably. Blown ignition coil eh? Years ago when I had a 1994 VW Passat the engine would suddenly die. The car had 26,000 miles on it, just past the 2 year/24,000 bumper to bumper. VW was very very cool about it and fudged the record to have it fixed under warranty work. First they replaced the fuel pump, no dice – car died again on I-95 at 80mph during early morning commute. Ouf da. VW then decided it was the coil and replaced that, problem was cleared up.

Thing is – if the coil fails and one of the cylinders doesn’t go, yes that will make the engine run rough, but won’t it smooth out under acceleration when the RPMs increase? The third cylinder was always problematic in my ’72 Beetle and frequently would die but always smoothed out under load.

Clearly Mercedes teh sux0r for being such a bitch to you. I would trade the thing in, and upgrade to your old Saturn that runs reliably.

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