Megane Coupe

[coupe_2.016v]

I am having a bit of trouble understanding what type of ignition i have because i have been told its a pencil coil and i have seen pictures of a pencil coil but when i took the top panel off there was no pencil coil just 4 rubber things coming off the top panel.
does anyone know what type ignition coil that is

thanks marc.

[coupe_2.016v]

sorry the car is a phase 1 megane coupe 1996 on a p plate 2.0 16v.

[MicKPM]

You won't have the x4 individual coils on an F7R-71X unit mate. You'll have the decent SAGEM unit as the Megane Coupe uses sequential fuel injection

[Chris H]

its a big coil pack on the ph1's and it doesn't go wrong tbh. Or at last I have never heard of one going wrong, the pencil coils go all the time adn teh double coils less so, but the ph1 2l is very reliable.

[Chris H]

mick stop trying to out ninja me!

[MicKPM]

Sorry I can't help it... I'm answering all the questions cos I'm waiting for you to respond to mine :P

[coupe_2.016v]

thanks for clearing that up because it was misfiring and losing loads of power below 4000 revs which i was told it was the coil pack and advised to buy the pencil coil. so i pulled the coil pack out expecting them to be pencil coils but was confused with what i saw. anyway i took all the spark plugs out and cleaned them up a bit and now it's running perfectly, but i am going to get some new plugs.
That reminds me which is better bosch or ngk plugs.

thanks marc

[Chris H]

ngk plugs.

look in the end of the coil pack 'legs' theres a metal cap and springs in there, they can corrode and lose contact with the plugs.

[MicKPM]

Lets hope that there's no static built up Chris... That'll make his hair go curley!