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Old 08-19-2020, 09:38 AM   #13
goodcar
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Default Re: Car died, no start

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Originally Posted by Big hammer View Post
Throwing parts at a problem doesn't help, especially when the parts are left in place ! Say for instance when you used a different coil it didn't fix the problem and left it in place. How do you know the replacement parts are good ? Once I replaced a starter 4 or 5 times and finely got a good one, parts store said we've had a bad rash of starters you'll get a good one sometime.
Well this was a tricky one with 2 weak links pretty much occurring at the same time, would have been much easier if parts had failed completely instead of just degrading. The bad replacement coil was new out of the box and did produce a fairly decent blue spark but car wouldn't run until going back to the original.
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