piro

Simple question, hope for a simple answer, I've done multiple searches on the forum, wont even bring up search results for a simple "coil" or "ignition". I'm searching for information on testing the coils resistance, I don't have an inductive timing light as other threads have suggested. I have a simple multimeter. any help on diagnosing which coil is bad?

dannobre

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go buy a $10 coil tester...looks like a weird spark plug with a clip on the side. You might get lucky and find one coil is completely dead and will show altered resistance values but not usually

piro

right on, was trying to avoid a run into town, i have a multimeter and they can be used for virtually everything lol. my car started with a p0302 code, after testing everything I started it back up, let it idle while checking some other things and it threw 2 more codes, a p0300 and a p0506. I'm also trying to avoid the crooks at the dealership.