2nd coil gone in 2 years

wolfehouse

in 2011 coil 3 went
and now coil 4 has gone as well
also had both headlights go suddenly at once last year

so i am wondering
is this just bad luck or
should i be lo0oking for a bigger cause?

opinions4u

Should this be in the birth control section?

worried_jim

wolfehouse wrote: »

in 2011 coil 3 went
and now coil 4 has gone as well
also had both headlights go suddenly at once last year

so i am wondering
is this just bad luck or
should i be lo0oking for a bigger cause?

French car?

Buzby

British Roads?

custardy

which car?

rockandroller

Check ALL of the ground straps (BTW some look like structural members)... you would be surprised at what a little corrosion in the wrong place can do!

TradePro

worried_jim wrote: »

French car?

I'm gonna go with VAG or BMW/Mini

agrinnall

Could well be VAG, I had a coil go on a Leon that I drove around 10 years ago and the RAC guy said that the bosses at VAG had switched from a Japanese to German supplier and the quality had nose-dived.

motorguy

wolfehouse wrote: »

in 2011 coil 3 went
and now coil 4 has gone as well
also had both headlights go suddenly at once last year

so i am wondering
is this just bad luck or
should i be lo0oking for a bigger cause?

What age of car?

Coils are items that wear out. Its no unreasonable that a second coil went, given all four have been in the car for the same length of time?

I would suggest that both headlights didnt go at one. One has went, you may not have noticed immediately and the second one blew because of the extra power going to it some time soon afterwards.

wolfehouse

2008 honda jazz

spacey2012

If its cracked, like Vag coils do, they crack and water gets in I know a fix for £9.
Tube of joiners/builders epoxy resin, strip the coil from the car/ van clean the coil with solvent so it is spotless, dry with a hair drier until it is very very dry, mix the resin and coat the coil in the resin all round bar the connectors.
saves hundreds of pounds, never goes again.
The joiners / builders resin has an open time of around an hour to allow you to finish the job in one skin.