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On 1 Sep 2003 at 17:03, Dave Hall wrote: > > the old maroon one is 30+ years old > > Is that the red Bosch coil? I thought they used an external ballast resistor to > help with starting - the wire from the starter solenoid feeds the coil direct > instead of via the resistor. I got one of those from a scrap car but forgot the > ballast resistor. Dave's right, and I didn't catch this. The Bosch Red coils (there are a couple of different ones) all require a ballast resistor. None of them are correct for our cars. All the OE Bosch coils for our cars were black. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org