[tcb] Re: Good ol electronic ignition

  • From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:56:11 -0800 (PST)

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.



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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. 

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