ignition coil
An ignition coil is a small box that takes the car’s battery power and turns it into a big spark that lights the fuel in the engine.
An ignition coil is an electrical component that transforms the battery’s low voltage into a high-voltage spark needed to ignite fuel in the engine cylinders.
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"I tried doing the ignition coil myself. I actually had the wrong coil. TIIs, specifically 74 TIIs have their own coil."
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"So I travel with ignition coil, fuel pump, distributor, all of the things that are just known that can pull the entire car down, right?"
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"more likely to be uh for example your bad ignition coil it could be something as simple as a bad ignition rotor we see that a lot in Volkswagen's"
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