Nope: Was just driving around the block, electric tach did a couple of weired bounces and the engine died. No fire. Has never had a battery charger on it. No hint of trouble until it died. ________________________________ From: "theresabuckner@xxxxxxx" <theresabuckner@xxxxxxx> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, November 21, 2012 9:02:02 PM Subject: [tcb] Re: Good ol electronic ignition Sammie Does that mean you put a battery charger on the Spyder ? Seems like that helps to Kaput them -----Original Message----- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: tcb <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 5:35 pm 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.