Just got my Daewoo Racer ignition system replaced because of a SIMPLE WIRE!

January this year, we just got our distributor motor replaced. It was a diagnosis after our car stopped by a gasoline station at Deparo, Caloocan on a Sunday morning as we are about to go to church. We just didn't know why it stopped running. We parked the car in the gas station, looked for mechanic and even added some fuel incase it just got dried up!

But no, it was actually the Distributor Motor Assembly that has got damaged. We had no idea that this would happen since we just got a periodic maintenance last December. So needless to say, we have to buy a new distributor motor. There is an OEM and a replacement one. The OEM costs P7500 and the replacement costs P3500. We chose the more expensive OEM of the thought that this one would last longer and has better performance.  So yeah, we got the car running after getting a mechanic to install the distributor for us. We shelled out another P1500 for installation. So it has been almost P10k that flew away just that! But for the sake of the comfort of having a car, we just let that P10k go!

By the way, I made a compilation of all the contact numbers of all Daewoo Parts Supplier that I have researched over the net. Here's my share for anybody's reference:
Daewoo and Other Korean Car Parts Supplier


But the sad story just never ended there. It was a series of erratic idling, hard starting motor and misfire that we have been experiencing after the installation. But the car still runs, so we thought it will get better sometime. (We thought!)

Til then, last week of April. Amost 4 months after the distributor motor replacement, the car just won't start anymore. From then I knew, something in the ignition AGAIN is causing the problem. Got the idea on how to diagnose the possible cause when I saw how the mechanic tested every part of the system when our car broke-out last January. It really pays to watch them and learn from such experiences.

So going back to the story of the almost-giving-up-car.Did a research too. I knew it was the ignition coil this time. So yes, we got it replaced. Good news that it only costs P600 at GoogGear (at Libertad,Pasay). So that faithful morning hereafter, we had the ignition coil replaced, and ALAS! -the car just STILL WOULDN'T START!

Again, I knew it!We have to unfortunately BUY a new Distributor Motor Assembly! We just bought a replacement and I installed it myself. I won't go wrong, that was just so easy, I learned how the mechanic did it before. Also I consulted the manual for COMPLETE and MORE PRECISE instruction. Thanks to a forum, I got this Daewoo Racer Manual. (Here's a forum that you might find useful for your Daewoo repair needs!)

So yes! The car worked this time!But idling and misfire just couldn't stop. What must STILL have been the problem?

By then we brought it to the auto-electrician and got it checked for electrical problems. They said the electrical system is OK! So we felt relieved! They advised us to have the TIMING checked!

At a Petron and Shell station, their service bay offers timing via timing light. That's a more precise one. We headed to Petron. The moment the service-crew grabbed the high-tension wire, he got grounded. He told us to replace the high tension wires with an OEM because the one newly-installed in our car is a DEFECTIVE one! And that was it! The OEM costs P1200 while a replacement only costs P350.

After replacing the High Tension Wires with an OEM ( anything but the orange one!), our car did ran back smoothly at 10km/L.

Yeah! It was the culprit! We never thought that it was that single-most-important wire we replaced last December caused us to replace our distributor motor TWICE in 4 months plus the ignition coil on the side.

Now we get to bring the car again to the office everyday. Thanks to that HIGH TENSION WIRES that surely caused us BIG TIME!