mot time

Nightmare start to the day. Battery was needing a good charge but I couldn't find my charger. So I got up early to check the car would start as it was booked in first thing for an mot. It churned over and over and no sign of life. I attached my 7A supply to the cigarette lighter and went for a cup of tea. 7.15am still not firing. coupled up strobe light while turning over and no flash. 45mins to go, removed the lumenition,coil and distributer and robbed the tipo ignition/dissy and coil from other car. Started first turn of the key. A quick wiggle of the dissy to get reasonable timing and off to the tester. IT PASSED . So got the car home and tested the lumenition on the bench. Worked great with an 8mm spark. Put it back in the car worked first time. Maybe a bad earth who knows. I think that the car must have known it was going in for mot and decided to sulk :roll:

Well done you for going to all the trouble of swapping parts over. I would've probably rescheduled the MoT !

Nice to know you have another year of (trouble free) motoring.