Hello experts, I had a number 2 ignition coil failure last night, do any of you know what order the coils run in?

for example if stood in front of the engine do they run 1 2 3 4 (from L to R) or is it 4 3 2 1 (R to left). As I have VCDS I swapped the two 'central' coils around and now the failure has moved to coil three which is good. I'll replace it myself you see.

Many thanks

From memory Pete, on my old vRS they run L to R. So looking at the bonnet, coilpack 1 should be nearest the driver's side.

Saw your other posts on this. I do sympathise. I had the same on mine; one of mine managed to set itself on fire....

Hope you get sorted. Sounds like that's your fault though and you can get a new one sorted. I got one in a hurry from my VW dealer as they're only down the road - if that helps you get this sorted quicker - Audi/Seat/VW dealer would all be good.

Hello experts, I had a number 2 ignition coil failure last night, do any of you know what order the coils run in?

for example if stood in front of the engine do they run 1 2 3 4 (from L to R) or is it 4 3 2 1 (R to left). As I have VCDS I swapped the two 'central' coils around and now the failure has moved to coil three which is good. I'll replace it myself you see.

Many thanks

You should swop them in pairs ie:- 1+3 2+4 and always replace the plugs doesn't mater how old thay are ,If your unlucky and have 2 and 3 down you should replase all for .

When you say 'always replace the plugs doesn't mater how old thay are' what do you mean? These are coilpacks, fitted to a 2.0TSFI.

Sorry if I've misunderstood you, I just wanted to clarify.

Thanks,

Steve

PeteHuws, stop what you are doing and put down the tools.......

Skoda currently have a (not very well advertised) campaign going on reference "28F7" this is for replacement of coil packs on most of the 1.8T and some of the early 2.0 TFSI engines. You need to call your lcal dealer ASAP to see if your engine / coil packs meet the recall criteria. If they do then they will swap out all four coils and replace with shiny new ones free-of-charge (service history disregarded). I have a 2006 model year 2.0 TFSI and had all of mine replaced very recently.

Hope this helps?

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/197957-coil-pack/page__st__40

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PeteHuws, stop what you are doing and put down the tools.......

Skoda currently have a (not very well advertised) campaign going on reference "28F7" this is for replacement of coil packs on most of the 1.8T and some of the early 2.0 TFSI engines. You need to call your lcal dealer ASAP to see if your engine / coil packs meet the recall criteria. If they do then they will swap out all four coils and replace with shiny new ones free-of-charge (service history disregarded). I have a 2006 model year 2.0 TFSI and had all of mine replaced very recently.

Hope this helps?

And also already discounted, sadly: http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/70510-octy-down/page__view__findpost__p__2466895

You should swop them in pairs ie:- 1+3 2+4 and always replace the plugs doesn't mater how old thay are ,If your unlucky and have 2 and 3 down you should replase all for .

Utter rubbish.

I had one coilpack go on me. I bought 4 coils and replaced the one that was faulty. 44k miles later i still had the 3 original coil packs in and the one new one that was i replaced. I have since sold the car and had the 3 new unused coilpacks in the garage which i gave away to a friend.

There is no requirement to replace the plugs. My car had been serviced 2k miles before the coil went and the plugs were changed on that service at my request. They then went on until the next service 13.5k miles later and in all honesty probably never needed changing. It was just me who asked for them to be changed at every service.

Pete - My advice would be check your car is not available to have the coils replaced FOC. If not then buy 2 coils only. Replace the one that is faulty and keep a spare just in case. Also change them yourself as it is a 15 minute job.

They go from L - R as Wardy says so Coil 1 is nearest the drivers side of the engine and coil 4 is nearest the battery.

That's what I was trying to establish Carl, as the earlier post didn't seem to be talking about coilpacks.

I'd echo your advice exactly. As that's precisely what I did with my issue - replaced the failed one, and had one in reserve. Never needed that one and another member got it when the car was sold

Cylinders always run from No. 1 being closest to the pulleys (cambelt & alternator belt etc) to No. 4 (or 6/8/12 etc) being closest to the gearbox.

HTH

When you say 'always replace the plugs doesn't mater how old thay are' what do you mean? These are coilpacks, fitted to a 2.0TSFI.

Sorry if I've misunderstood you, I just wanted to clarify.

Thanks,

Steve

Spark Plugs !

Gents, thanks v much! Yes I bought 2 but only replaced the offending one, as 'hopefully' expected the car fired back into life 1 will be kept in the boot as a spare.

Peanut thanks for the heads up, I should have mentioned this is a last resort, Skoda were not honouring the recall on my car stating that "It didn't need it" even though it was sat on my drive broken at the time. I checked the rev '07K 905 715B' and this is flagged as defect & needing replacement.

I've sent an email to Skoda customer service to triple check why they're not replacing these.

Thanks guys !!

Glad you're sorted. Keep us updated on the recall/replacement issue. Does sound odd. As if they have incorrect info on your car, for what revision is fitted to it.

Glad you got it sorted.

It won't help you now but a comment on the logic of the swap you did in your original diagnosis.

Swapping the 2 central coils only confirmed what you already knew - that No2 was one of the central cylinders. What you should have done was to swap one of the central with one of the outside. That way if the error moves to 1 or 4 then the coil you moved to the outside is faulty; if the fault remains at 2 then the central coil you didn't move is faulty.

had coil a coil pack burn out on me didn't know what the fault was invested in a code reader and the code for a burnt out coil pack was diagnosed fireing order should be 1342  1 being the pully end