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Re: 2 DICs in 6 Months, Unusual?
Posted by dtechakacheaptech [Email] (more from dtechakacheaptech) on Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:01:11
In Reply to: 2 DICs in 6 Months, Unusual?, marynvince, Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:41:06
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Do you have any extended warranty or anything like that - if not it has to be expensive having the dealer replace the DIC. Do you get any kind of a warranty when the dealer replaces a DIC ?
So is it unusual - probably but not something that is shocking to hear, given there are several single points of failure in the DIC - electrical components that can suddenly and fatally fail and being exposed to heating and cooling cycles doesn't help with longevity. Things that tend to fail more gradually - coils and capacitor give you the CEL warning.
As I think someone mentioned on the 9-3 the ignition circuitry is not sitting ontop of the engine so one would expect to see fewer fatal failures in that design.
On my old 1999 9-5 I had 130k miles on the DIC and when I sold the car it was still working well.
Posts in this Thread:
- 2 DICs in 6 Months, Unusual?, marynvince, Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:41:06
- 2 weeks after fix CEL pops up, Argh, marynvince, Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:10:45
- Re: 2 DICs in 6 Months, Unusual?, Tom G , Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:47:42
- Re: 2 DICs in 6 Months, Unusual?, dtechakacheaptech, Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:01:11 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: 2 DICs in 6 Months, Unusual?, saabsince 93b , Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:48:51
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