You may or may not read my travel post from yesterday - great trip down the
Olympic Peninsula and halfway down Oregon coast.  At the heart of the
matter was that my coil packed it in about 3 km from home.  A mixed
blessing of sorts given the rush hour driving we completed in Portland on
the I-5, the number of large bridges we crossed, and some of the remote
highways we traversed.

I have now replaced 4 coils since July 10 of 2012 = here are the makes of
coils, dates of purchase & install and odometer reading in (kms).

July 10, 2012- Beck Arnley Coil (267,951) replaced the original (?) black
Bosch coil - I bought the van in the Summer of 2006 (228,394). as a
preventative measure.

Sept 28, 2012 - New Bosch coil (270,965) replaced Beck Arnley (failed)

Feb 8, 2014 - Replaced new Bosch Coil with spare (original coil) (279,376)
(new Bosch coil failed)

October 22, 2014 - Replaced spare coil with 2nd New Bosch coil (283,980)
(Mechanic accidentally kept spare coil which I have not yet got back)

August 15, 2015 - Replaced 2nd Bosch coil with 3rd Bosch coil (289,578).

I just sent off an email to Bosch Canada given that this could be some poor
workmanship or perhaps some bad luck on my part.  What mechanically or more
specifically electronically do people think could be possibly contributing
to this issue.

One last thing - I did post last October on the heat I noticed from the 2nd
Bosch coil - ?  Subject line:  Coil Boil

Thanks all.

Bruce Todd

86 Westy Syncro