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Ignition coil MSD or APR
I've had APR coils for over 50k now. No issues at all. Done 3 track days on the coils, and 2 on both the coils and plugs. Been stage 2 for over 30k now.
Pros: no issues, track-proven, long lasting
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 80467 km
Installed APR coils with NGK lasers in January. No issues here since.
Pros: no issues
Vehicle:
Audi S5
Did mine recently, with new APR coils and more performance oriented NGK plugs.
Pros: performance oriented
I’ve always had good luck with MSD coils. I’ve had them on MULTIPLE vehicles.
Pros: good reliability, good performance
My tuned 17' R has had RS7 plugs and APR coils for awhile without issue, but I'm ready for a new set.
Pros: no issues
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
I have 75K on my CC Sport with APR Stage1+ Tune. I recently changed my plugs and put APR coils in not sure if got any real power but the car feels so much better. At $27 a coil why not use APR?
Pros: car feels so much better
Cons: not sure if got power
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 75000 km
So I replaced the coils with MSD packs, and tossed in fresh plugs, even though the old ones were less than 10k miles in. This seemed to fix the issue for a while, but it ended up coming back.
Pros: seemed to fix issue
Cons: issue ended up coming back
Vehicle:
Ford
Mileage: 10000 km
I had these APR blue coils on for about 35-40k miles and they ran okayish. At idle my car ran a little rough and have tried different plugs with no change, then one day cylinder 2 started slowly losing power on the highway then just completely fell off the face of the earth when i pulled off. Let car take a break and went back to normal then exact same happened again. Speculated it was coils so swapped to oem and car has been running great 10k miles later. Overall like i said do not recommend whatever pixie dust is in these oem packs is just too good
Pros: ran okayish initially
Cons: rough idle, lost power, unreliable
Mileage: 56327 km
APR’s snake oil, don’t do anything other than aesthetic. Also don’t fix whats not broken, OEM is far superior
Cons: snake oil, aesthetic only
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
I have the APR coil packs installed currently (about 5k mikes on them so far) and I gotta say... Just stick with OEM. There is no benefit...
Cons: no benefit
Mileage: 8047 km
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