I have a '94 Mazda MX 3. For many years it was driven only on Sundays in the Bay Area. Finally in the last few years we started driving it more frequently so it now has just under 100,000 miles in 14 years of driving. The problem is that in the last 20,000 miles (or less) we have replaced the dis…

Did they give you any idea of what the problem with the distributor was?

The last time they said it was burned out and there was a lot of damage

I guess by burned out we are talking an electrical problem. After 3 distributors it seems something is causing the distributor to fail. I hope some knowledgeable posters will chime in as I can only think of coil, and spark plug wires as a slim possibility for the electronic components of the distrib…

Just for clarification, are we talking about distributor not the distributer cap, and rotor. And is all the ignition parts stock or replacement grade parts.

Are they having them rebuilt? I suspect a poor rebuild job.

More than once the distributor, distributor cap and wires were replaced

JMHO, but I’m not sold on the idea of this many bad distributors. Especially since you’ve had this done at a number of different shops and if you have also related to each shop in succession that you have had repeated dist. failures. Maybe each shop is just assuming it’s the same old thing and blin…

Just ran into this issue with the same symptoms practically as the OP - maybe 4000 miles on a new distributor after the original had the wiring clip broken by a friend, shop is diagnosing a failed distributor on my 91 f-150 5.0 engine. if distributors were fully mechanical I would raise an eyebrow …

Exactly that - I didn’t notice that the boards can be unscrewed and replaced, so you don’t need a full new distributor - just TFI modules(basically the same price, but a lot less work to just replace the module). really surprised that the shop didn’t key me in on that and had to learn it in a 12 yea…

Multiple Bad Distributors

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ok4450 September 10, 2020, 1:39am 10

Twelve years late to the party, but I might ask what part of the distributor is being fried? You mention circuit board. Does that mean the board in the TFI module?

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