[rescue] Fun With Statistics

[Dave McGuire]

On June 1, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > He was telling me the new 5 series (?) now had 6 coils in them.. one for
> > each cylinder. We discussed how an old 2002 just needed one, and they never
> > ever failed anyway.
> > But then he said, they (the new coils) were shit coils nad went out all the
> > time. I said, "Good to have extras then I suppose", and he replied: "No, if
> > one goes out, the computer wont let the engine start, so the other five
> > dont matter".
> 
> Dodge does that on some (if not all) of their trucks now.  I heard a
> reason for it that sounded good, but now I forget.  It might have had
> something to do with performance tuning.

  I'm not really a motorhead, so I can't get technical about it, but I'm
told some manufacturers do this for performance reasons.  My Porsche
('95 911/993) has two coils (and two plugs) per cylinder.

        -Dave

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