Another new distributor cap and rotor!

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Over the past 27 years I’ve owned my '89 it’s been unbelievably reliable, never
breaking down or failing to start on the very first crank … except for 3 times.
All three times the culprit has been the distributor cap/rotor (although I’m not sure which one was the culprit because I change them both).

Needless to say I ALWAYS keep new spares in the trunk. Well time number 4 was today and of course after installing the new parts it fired right up.

I always keep the car in a nice dry garage and rarely drive in the rain so I’m at a loss to figure out this phenomenon.

By the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR and safe motoring to all my Jaguar friends.

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Hi Dennis!

I was glad to read that the fix for that problem was that easy. But I guess you had a chance to get to know your car in the past 27 years. So it was about 2 years old when you bought it? Whoaa! Do you remember the first day when you took it home? I bought my '94 MY in March of 2007 when it was exactly 13 years old and 82xxx miles on the clock. Now it’s got 138xxx miles. I guess time flies when you have fun.
Happy New Year to you too!