Or as they are correctly called, 'direct fire coils, on fire, in the engine bay'.

 

This phenomenon occurred whilst I was driving last night, accompanied by an acrid smell of burning plastic and was preempted by running on 5 cylinders. Be warned!

 

I have (had) all new connectors, it appears there must have been an internal short or something. Not much left of the coil pack but at least I could light my fag without getting my lighter out whilst I contemplated how to extinguish it :-\. As it turned out a 'birthday cake' blow was enough to put it out.

 

Has this happened to anyone else? Anyone got a spare connector they would care to sell me please?

 

Cheers

H

I had this last week found out it was a bad earth, new coil pack and new earth lead all ok now.

 

Mine got hot soon as the car started, 5 seconds could not touch it.

Hmm..which earth did you replace? I just assumed a knakd coil pack...

 

Cheers

H

Had to run a new one from the coil pack to the earth point.

Oh lordy. I suspect you're right, I may have the same prob, replaced coil pack today and no spark, coil pack getting v hot v quickly. So I've got to run a new wire all the way from the coil earth connector to the original earth point (wherever that may be??) or will any connecton to ground do the job?

 

Can anyone advise which of the three is the coil earth connection for a start please?

 

I guess the looms on these things are getting pretty shot by now :-\

 

Cheers

H

Just posting my fix in case it helps anyone else.

 

I had replaced all coil pack connectors a couple of years ago, used heat shrink tubing to insulate my splicing. It seems the heat shrink had worn thin, possibly due to very low coolant and engine getting quite hot last time the car was driven. This caused a partial short between the wires and subsequent overheating of the coil pack.

 

Cheers

H

Just posting my fix in case it helps anyone else.

 

I had replaced all coil pack connectors a couple of years ago, used heat shrink tubing to insulate my splicing. It seems the heat shrink had worn thin, possibly due to very low coolant and engine getting quite hot last time the car was driven. This caused a partial short between the wires and subsequent overheating of the coil pack.

 

Cheers

H

 

so the cause was the repair you made a few years ago?

Gald you fixed

Yep, my fault, indirectly. I suspect it wouldn't have become an issue if the engine hadn't got hot enough to 'super shrink' the insulating shrink tubing. Just beware if you've insulated any wiring in this way, perhaps add a couple of turns of pvc tape just to be safe and if it runs on 5 or less cylinders with no apparent cause fix it before you drive!

Cheers

H