It sounds like you need to get an original from a parts van ... LOL.

The coils in my '84 and my '85 are factory originals and are still doing
fine.

I'm converting my '84 to the '85 style distributor cap so I can use the
later sparkplug and coil wires and have obtained a "Previously owned"
OEM coil to complete the change over.

Mike

Rick Koller wrote:
> Hi all,
>        Last week I had a sudden stumbling backfiring '91 carat on my hands.
> Looked like a possible green coax O2 cable failure as described by a
> helpful listmember. I had tested several other fuel injection
> components before the cable which were fine. I tested the cable for
> shorting between the shielding and the core wire and it was ok.  Just
> for  future reference if you experience these annoyingly similar
> symptons, it turned out to be my coil that had gone bad. And not an
> old coil either, it was bosch brazilian red in color, 3 years old,
> don't bother with them. I also had a new silver bosch coil go bad
> just last year (on one of my other vanagons) this coil was just over
> a year old, I may have to try the low dollar mexican variety next
> since the high dollar ones crapped out so fast. Anyone had similar
> coil failures recently? How are the mexican bosch coils doing?
> Rick Koller
>