ignition coil ? was fuel pump?

[Torbjorn Bergstrom]

Sound's like something that happened to me with my '85 GTi.

Parked  at a parking meter in Boston then realized that the next one still
had time on it.  The car wouldn't start...

Was towed to a garage and I took the bus home.  They got ~$300 for
installing a new fuel pump and it worked fine for a couple of months.

The next time it died at a stop light close enough to home to for AAA to
tow it there.  I pulled the fuel pump and got a replacement under warranty.

The 3rd time it died about 2 months later AAA again towed it home but it
started right up the next morning.  A little investigation showed that one
of the wires was bad and jiggling the harness would make it work or
not.  replaced the wires and it worked again for years....

I figure I could have saved the $300 plus bus fare if I jiggled the wires
the first time...

Toby

'90 90 (I call it a 180...)




From: "wa b" <mrproton at hotmail.com>
To: quattro at audifans.com
Cc: bswann at worldnet.att.net
Subject: ignition coil ? was fuel pump?
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 17:16:34 -0500

hey,
well, I thought it might be the fuel pump, prolly not. Car has an
intermittent problem. I got 5 miles from home and it died, had it towed
home. Car was running fine then nothing, of course the next morning it
started right up. Now checking out the ignition system(thanks Ben) I find
that the ignition coil might be the problem. The primary resistance
measures within spec. The secondary measures wide open, or infinity,
between terminals 1 and 4 on the coil. Could that cause an intermittant
problem? Seems like it wouldnt run at all but I`ve been wrong before. I
didnt order a fuel pump but I did order a new coil. Am I on the right
track?, Thanks in Advance, tring to make a 550 mile trip to Louisiana
tomorrow.
Andrew `88 80q