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Coil-on plug was not terribly common in the 90's. More likely you would have had a "distributorless" ignition system with a coil pack mounted somewhere in the e
by throwway120385 2y ago
Coil-on plug was not terribly common in the 90's. More likely you would have had a "distributorless" ignition system with a coil pack mounted somewhere in the engine compartment and plug wires from that to the engine. Earlier in the 90's you would have still had a distributor but with electronic fuel injection either by direct injection or by throttle-body injection. The only TBI engine I've had was an OBD1 system with a distributor attached to the oil pump. It was built in 1995. The only electronic ignition engine I drove from the 90's was from 1996 and it had an OBD2 system with a coil pack. My first coil-on-plug engine was from 2006.
Otherwise this is a great article.
- mhandley 2y agoMy son has a Seat Leon MK1 from 2002 and that uses coil-on-plug. The MK1 was released in 1999, so likely at least VW group were using coil-on-plug in the late 1990s.
- nickff 2y agoCOP was invented in the 1930s, and first used on automobiles in the 1970s: https://gtc.ca/blog/the-different-types-of-ignition-systems/#elementor-toc__heading-anchor-4 https://gtc.ca/blog/the-different-types-of-ignition-systems/...
- technothrasher 2y ago> Earlier in the 90's you would have still had a distributor but with electronic fuel injection Even by the mid-80's, many European cars were already running this setup, or at least electronic ignition and CIS injection.
- mikestew 2y agoI was still a professional mechanic in the 90s. Coil-on-plug was becoming common even amongst American brands, let alone European.