John,
   I can aggree with you 100%, until I've seen this myself.  I have been approched
by several good technical mechanics that have Vanagons that are dead.  They
tell the same story:  "Vanagon came in dead. I replaced the coil.  Came back
3 months later, dead, again"   My reply is check for Bosch platinum plugs, if
so, replace the coil again, and replace the plug with factory original.
   I have several coils an home that are DOA.....want one to cehck out?
                                                                      Eric

John Lunetta wrote:

> Hi Eric, I don't know. It would be interesting to here from others on the list on this subject however. I may have the lucky coil. Or you found the unlucky coils. I just can't see the plugs bieng the culprit in the destuction of coils. Hey you never know.
> John 90 vanagon gl.