What causes an ignition coil to stop working?
Vibrations can damage ignition coil windings and insulation, causing shorts or breaks in the secondary windings. The overheating of ignition coils can hinder their ability to conduct electricity. Wear and tear is a common reason for ignition coils failing.
What are the ignition coils?
Ignition coils are an electronic engine management component that are a part of the vehicle’s ignition system. The ignition coil functions as an induction coil that converts the vehicle’s 12 volts into the several thousand that are required to jump the spark plug gap and ignite the engine’s air-fuel mixture.
Can a plug and play ignition coil be replaced?
Many ignition coils offer a plug-and-play design, making them easy to replace. If your vehicle has this style of coils, even a relatively new DIYer can likely handle the replacement without professional assistance. Still, some coils are hard to access. If you do the job on your own, though, you only pay the parts costs.
Can a VW ignition coil be replaced after it has failed?
Due to that limited supply, VW would only replace coils that had already failed. Although to their credit, the CSC was later revised to replace all ignition coil packs regardless of their performance.
Vibrations can damage ignition coil windings and insulation, causing shorts or breaks in the secondary windings. The overheating of ignition coils can hinder their ability to conduct electricity. Wear and tear is a common reason for ignition coils failing.
Ignition coils are an electronic engine management component that are a part of the vehicle’s ignition system. The ignition coil functions as an induction coil that converts the vehicle’s 12 volts into the several thousand that are required to jump the spark plug gap and ignite the engine’s air-fuel mixture.
Many ignition coils offer a plug-and-play design, making them easy to replace. If your vehicle has this style of coils, even a relatively new DIYer can likely handle the replacement without professional assistance. Still, some coils are hard to access. If you do the job on your own, though, you only pay the parts costs.
How do you remove a coil from an ignition coil?
Use a nut driver or a small wrench to loosen the securing nuts on the coil terminals and remove the leads; the positive side of the coil has a condenser lead attached in addition to a positive lead. Then loosen the bottom clamp screw, pull out the center cable that goes to the distributor and remove the coil.