[s-cars] Installing New Coil

[Tom Green]

I had heard this also, Bob, but a personal stop at the parts dept of 
the local dealer got me 10 male pins @ $1.10 each and 2 connector 
housings (coil side) @ $9.32 ea  (ouch).  This is less than 
eagleday.com is charging plus a tech crimped the ends at no charge.  I 
have a crimper, but probably would have 10% failure in my crimps.  The 
parts mgr stocks the shop supplies bin with pins but does not stock for 
over the counter sales,  and claims a modest use by maintenance even 
with the connectors having wires already installed for splices.  My 
connectors did not have any existing wires.
So, I guess your mileage does vary.  :-)

Tom '95 S6

On Sep 4, 2004, at 9:15 PM, Bob Rossato wrote:

>>   Since you have gotten to the connectors disassembly already, why not
>> try the dealer for some help (low cost, hopefully).   They probably
>> have the new connector pins and the proper double crimper to just put
>> new pins on the new coil wires and install in the old connector.
>
> VW and Audi dealers stopped sellling the individual connector pins 
> several
> years ago.  All they will sell you now is the pin pre-crimped on a 
> wire (any
> color you want as long as it's yellow), which you then have to splice 
> into
> the wire you are repairing.  There are other sources for the connector 
> pins,
> such as Wurth or AMP, but the dealer is no longer one of them and 
> hasn't
> been for quite some time.
>
> Bob
>
>