[s-cars] 1.8t coil conversion saga

[iain.atkinson at tesco.net]

> Well if you buy from the dealer and they fail i would be taking them back, mental note to self buy a spare next time i am passing the dealer


Iain
> From: "Tom Mullane" <tmullane at gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/12/20 Wed PM 03:07:01 GMT
> To: vfugman at globaldialog.com
> CC: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] 1.8t coil conversion saga
> 
> I'm surprised you guys are simply happy to buy more coil packs.  What about
> getting Audi to warranty the parts?
> 
> Are you running the cover?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:53:11 -0600
> From: "Varon H. Fugman" <vfugman at globaldialog.com>
> Subject: [s-cars] 1.8t coil conversion saga
> To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
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> With an OEM coil on the way out (failing gradually over a period of months),
> I finally took the plunge a couple months ago and ordered the 1.8t coil
> conversion harness and a set of 5 coils from 034 Motorsport for $355.  They
> shipped the kit the same day, and the workmanship on the wiring harness is
> beautiful-no way I could do this good of work myself (not the mention the
> time to source parts and put it all together.  But I digress.)
> 
> 
> 
> Installation was a piece of cake.  Took much longer to rewire connector #2
> from the ECU back to the factory configuration-I had had it wired to use the
> spare POS channel.
> 
> 
> 
> Car seemed to run smoothly with the new coils in place, with the possible
> exception of an oh-so-very-slight loss of power at full boost.  But with
> some of you 400+hp guys running the 1.8t coils I figured there couldn't be a
> problem running the 1.8t coils on my 280hp TAP Stage I setup.
> 
> 
> 
> 3 weeks later, drove 400 miles to St. Louis for Thanksgiving.  Car runs
> great.  Start the car on Thanksgiving Day, car runs rough.  Coil in cylinder
> #4 had died.  Swapped coil with #3 to make sure.  All VW dealer parts
> departments closed for 4 day weekend, so I had to spend a couple days longer
> in St. Louis than planned.*
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