FAO V6 owners!

[n0rm]

to cut a story short ive been coilOWNED again today, looking at olld invoices renault are silly prices as you would expect!

so been on the GSF website and there coils (sagem) are ALOT cheaper at £18.10, but is this for a reason, are they s**t or what....LOL?

ta, n0rm

 

[The Boosh!]

may be worth mentioning your on about ignition coils, not coils as in suspention

 

[n0rm]

IIRC that onlyyou boosh thats thinks that

 

[Ali]

V6 owners are very aware of what "Coils" are lol.

 

[sideways danny]

not gonna be worse than standard are they

 

[Ali]

.........hummm.

 

[Chrisjk]

If they are anything like the grey topped ones on ebay i used to buy then you'll be replacing them every 2-3 months.

 

[col 182]

Debs used the GSF ones and had no problems so far! She keeps a spare one in the car also!

 

[n0rm]

^^ cheers col ill gee them a buzz in the morning!

 

[DebV6]

Yeah GSF were the cheapest ones I could find, but they seem to be fine. Cheap enough to buy a couple spare too

 

[n0rm]

cheers Deb, thats cleared that up for me.......yeah gonna replace them all and buy a couple of spare items as you say

 

[Fred@BTM]

they're £9 i think from pug/citreon IIRC, i might be wrong

 

[Ali]

^ you're wrong.

There £16.73 from Pug. I'll dig out the part number. Touchwood in over 15k miles i've not had one go!

 

[Oldskoolbaby]

You could always get the Trophy coils which ive heard are a fit and forget job. Only problem is they require a slight change in wiring. Expensive initially, but maybe cheaper and alot less of a pain in the ass over the long run.

 

[Willliams]

I believe that "Sagem" coils are the OE to the V6, but it seems that these are the ones that occassionally fail.
Peugeot ones tend to be supplied by "Valeo" which seem to be of a better quality and 'appear' to fail less frequantly.
As Oldskoolbaby said above.. if you want no further issues.. take the Trophy coil route.

Personally, I'm sure all of mine are Sagem.. I've had 2 fail on me in 2 years. Next time one goes, I think I shall replace them all for Valeo coils. Which I'm sure are nearer the £23 mark each, comparred to £40 odd from Renault for Sagem.

 

[ashy_gtt]

I only paid for 1 from Reno when I was young and naive!!

I've since replaced the other 5 with Citroen / Peugeot coild which are actually Delphi coils! I seem to remember them being around the £20.00 mark.

Norm I'm suprised you've only just realised this!

 

[Willliams]

Seems Peugeot / Citroen supply BOTH Valeo and Delphi then..

I'll still be replacing mine with Valeo.. from knowledgable recomendation

 

[n0rm]

I only paid for 1 from Reno when I was young and naive!!

I've since replaced the other 5 with Citroen / Peugeot coild which are actually Delphi coils! I seem to remember them being around the £20.00 mark.

Norm I'm suprised you've only just realised this!

LOL mate ive only ever had one go before mate, it went to renault for that as i was miles from home and about to go away so sent it to renault! so never really done much research,this time im replaceing all 6 so doing some!

 

[Ali]

These mk1's....bababababuckets!

 

[Addz]

mines been alright so far! keep meaning to get a valeo one from work as a spare but havnt got round to it!

 

[maynard]

to cut a story short ive been coilOWNED again today, looking at olld invoices renault are silly prices as you would expect!

so been on the GSF website and there coils (sagem) are ALOT cheaper at £18.10, but is this for a reason, are they s**t or what....LOL?

ta, n0rm

the sagem one's are normally ok yeah. we sell a fair few of them so sagem must be doing something right.

 

[ddouble]

if your going to replace them all, valeo is the best way to go.