I meant to submit a picture, but if you’ve seen one ignition coil, you’ve seen them all.

Okay that’s absolutely not true. Not true at all…

First one I bought, from a “guaranteed fit” website, did not, in fact, fit. My car has a 4-pin connector for the coils. This one had only three. So back it went. Went to the dealership and got the correct coil, which is what I should have done in the first place. Serves me right for trying to save a couple bucks…

Swapped it out and goddamn it’s like having a whole new engine! I had no idea one sickly coil could make that much difference in an engine’s performance. This thing much have been bad long before it started throwing codes.

The old one looks fine on the outside. I’d imagine whatever’s bad is somewhere inside the epoxy, which I’m not going to bother digging through to find. Cleared the engine code and I’m gonna hold on to the old one just in case.

First time doing this too. Had no idea it was that easy. I’m not really a car guy.

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    14 days ago

    Engine threw a code for a cylinder 2 misfire, which I also felt as I was driving. Now like I said I’m not a car guy - I just kinda learn as I go - so I did some reading up and talked to some friends who actually are car people, and determined that a bad ignition coil was the likely culprit.

    I’d like to add that I have my own OBD2 reader and highly recommend that everyone who owns a car have one too. They’re cheap and it pays for itself the first time you use it to diagnose your own car problem.