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Old 02-03-2010, 06:55 AM
zhandax zhandax is offline
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Forget symptoms and what happened to someone else. Go back and look at cause and effect. The car ran fine until you changed the plugs and wires. These cars are notably finicky about their plugs and less notably but more finicky about their wires. Phil's part number for the proper Beru wires you need is W0133-1609626. Plugs have been debated here endlessly, but as a guideline, Bosch H9DC before 5/88 and H9DCO after 5/88.

Could you have killed a sensor by putting one tank of 87 octane in the car? Of course its possible but not as likely as by substituting proper parts with known cheap substitutes which provide the wrong resistance at the wrong place in the electrical circuit. Start with the plugs and wires. I will leave others to comment on cap and rotor, but believe you will find the first two items will resolve the bulk of the problem.
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