A few weeks ago I posted that while test driving my '80 it decided to just quit. On the bright side, it quit just 100' or so short of the driveway. That was better than out on the main road where I was 5 minutes earlier. I could imagine waiting for a tow and then nonchalantly leaning on my windshield hiding the 2004 inspection sticker if the police arrived before the tow truck.
The cause of the failure turned out to be an Accel 300+ multispark capacitive discharge ignition module I had put into the car back around 2000. As I was looking for the cause of failure I pulled the original coil out of the original 300+ box which was conveniently right where I had left it 17 years ago - i.e. in the back of the vette. Nicely printed on the box was "lifetime warranty". The question of course was could I prove I was the original owner. And conveniently in the box was my faded receipt from Summit Racing.
So, after a few calls and redirects to different numbers at Accel/MSD, I finally found an actual warranty person. He informed me that their products have only 1 year warranties. I said that maybe so now, but my part was bought when it Accel offered a lifetime warranty. Yes, he said, but added we are MSD. Yes, I agreed, but added that when they bought Accel, they bought its liabilities. He checked with someone else and this lead to a few emails with documentation of the unit, the purchase, etc. They then informed me that the 300+ was no longer available nor could it be repaired, but that they could send me an MSD Digital 6-plus ignition control module instead. I just needed to send in the failed 300+. I did, and so if UPS is to be trusted my new MSD module should arrive tomorrow.
I have to say, I am impressed that they honored the warranty. Concerning the MSD Digital 6+, opinions? offers?
|UPDATED|11/17/2017 6:03:46 AM (AZT)|/UPDATED|
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As it once looked and hopefully will again