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KENNELDAVE
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I have a 2002 Dodge 3500 15 Passenger Van, 5.9L V8, Automatic, AC, 120,000 miles. 4 months ago it quit running when I stopped at an intersection. The repair shop said it was a bad coil. Last week it quit again while driving on the highway. The same garage again said it was a bad coil. I told them they just replaced the coil 4 months ago they said ther was more than one coil. Is that true? Do I have some other problem that is making the coil to go bad?
Thanks for your help.
Dave
Jun 10, 2007 at 6:17 PM
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KIN CHAN
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very possible!!!!...i don't work on that much dodge to tell u a pattern failure..but i know on nissan....everyone in autp repair community know the late 90's if u have 1 bad coil ....the rest of em' won't last more than a years..i think it has something to do with the bad coil with high resistant drawing to much amperage thru the relay during saturation and over load the rest of the coil...its not uncomon..
at least in my professional stand point...this shop catch a problem ..what cause it ?..is another matter ... how good that shop is..whats their net working and research ability in finding out the cause...depends on their price and set up.....u must understand one thing...customer pay to make it run..but they don't wanna pay to find out why...so 2nd comeback is not uncommon....as long as this is not a wide known problem for awhile which most shops knows about it and ur shop still in the dark
Jun 10, 2007 at 6:52 PM