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Re: Burning Ignition coils
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 12/24/2007

By burned, I'm assuming you mean carbon tracked at the tower. You need to look at secondary ignition. Coils as a rule don't just fail, they usually fail due to a fault in the secondary circuit. The most common cause is a bad plug wire with either an open fault... Login to read more.