[tcb] Re: Good ol electronic ignition
- From: "Scott Garvie" <sgarvie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:11:07 -0600
Same here. Mine never quit on me, but I swapped over to a Bosch 010 with
points and feel much more confident on long trips. I carry the complete
electronic 009 as a spare, but also carry spare points, cond, rotor & cap.
From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of sammie smith
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 5:36 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Good ol electronic ignition
Took the Spyder out for a cruise around the neighborhood this afternoon to
look at the trees, which are gorgeous right now in Nacogdoches. A block
from the house and it shut down. No fire. Yep, Beck builds these things
from all new parts, including the Chinese 009 and electronic ignition. 8800
km and the thing gives up.
Towed it home, put in a rebuilt German 009 with points and condensor and it
cranks right up. This was the only car that I had with anything other than
a German distributor and points. I have driven VWs for hundreds of
thousands of miles and the only distributor failure that I have ever had was
one set of broken points on a 71 super beetle that only had about 10,000
miles on it at the time. Will never own another electronic ignition
equipped VW.
That's my rant for the day.
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