Skoda Rally Blog

So, last time out things were looking up, but it was time for a change of coilpack and plug leads.  Which should be straightforward, just go and buy one.  Simple enough.  Except, of course, you guessed it; not as simple as that.  Finding the coil pack was easy.  Not down to any great skill on my part, more to it having a part number.  A nice surprise was that buying it from my local car shop – Motorists’ Discount Centres – where I get all my “everyday” car bits was actually cheaper than anywhere I found on the Internet (although I’d rather get bits from them anyway) at £55 – less than the £80 or so I’d  been quoted elsewhere.

So, that was half the battle.  The other half wasn’t so easy.  Back in the day, you’d just go into any car shop and pick up the leads you needed; they had different lengths on the shelf.  Nowadays, that’s not the case; everything comes in sets.  And I didn’t know what would fit.  Thankfully another larger local store, SMC, was worth a trip; £9.31 later, I had the leads I needed.

Put them all together, and then on the car….

All shiny and new. Not for long.

Far too shiny!  However, the car fired up much more easily than before, so hopefully this will have the misfire sorted out; it was present with the old engine at rallyday as well, so I’m hoping that will be it…  I won’t have a chance to drive the car until Thursday, so I guess I’ll know then.