Maximan190

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I want to find out what you fellow VE owners do when it comes to the coils.. Do you keep swapping them out for other used coils and hope for the best or has anyone had luck with (brand new) aftermarket units? Or take the plunge and buy new OEM?

The occasional hesitation/choking/stalling is getting quite annoying and id like to fix it. I found these brands on rockauto

UNITED IGNITION WIRE Part # COP363 Rear/Right $61.79

STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS Part # UF153 {Click Info Link for Alternate/OEM Part Numbers2243397E00, 2243397E10, 88921299, E515C} Intermotor Rear $62.99

AIRTEX / WELLS Part # 5C1239 {Click Info Link for Alternate/OEM Part Numbers2243397E00, 2243397E10, 88921299, C1038}
(2 hold down bolts); Right $73.79

AIRTEX / WELLS Part # 5C1238 {#2243397E05, 88921298, C1037}
(1 hold down bolt); Left $74.79

STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS Part # UF119 {Click Info Link for Alternate/OEM Part Numbers2243397E05, 2243397E15, 88921298, E514C} Intermotor Front $87.79

HITACHI Part # IGC0046 $99.79



And Advance carries BWD/Intermotor brand for $110 Rear/$117 Front each

Courtesy nissan shows $104 each

i also called a local nissan dealer here and they have it for $124 each



Its a big bullet to bite by going with the new OEM at $600 to almost $800 for a full set of 6. $300-500 for a full set of most of the aftermarket rockauto brands. Are the original coils salvageable by putting electrical tape around the cracked body or maybe slipping on a sleeve of electrically isolating material? Assuming that arcing from a cracked coil is the problem and that it did not fail internally

James92SE

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I bought new Airtex/Wells on Rock Auto on my black VE (I think it came to about $450 total shipped). I have probably 20 "known good" coil packs that I had been using/swapping out as needed, but even with "known good" coil packs it seems like there was always inevitably some sort of intermittent miss I could never track down here and there that really irked me. It would randomly be on different cylinders all the time and just generally frustrate you.

Since I did brand new injectors and virtually everything else brand new on the black VE I just wanted to go ahead and do the coil packs new too (but not bad enough to spend $700 from Nissan ).

I can't speak to their longevity because frankly I haven't even hardly driven the car. Still have a ton more work to do on it before its back on the road for good. Next spring I'll be buying new coil packs for the blue VE. My worry is that by the time I get around to it there won't be any more available.

KenBob

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The electrical tape idea kinda works.... Though it is truly only a temporary fix, as the coils get older usually what cracks are on the body of the coil will get bigger over time and tape will come undone over time as well. Tape them up and save up!!