Speaking of Lucas, when I bought my Series I back in 1960, everything was
just perfect, until I got about 3,900 miles on the car, THE COIL FAILED.
Of course it was LUCUS.
Bob Berghult
Series 3 GT (son's)
Series IV (mine)
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:40:48 +1100 Victor Hughes
<v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au> writes:
> > I could go on and on-basically the problems I have seen with
> > Lucas is that it fails at about 2-3X the rate of American or
> German (Bosch)
> > components. The trouble is that the American or Bosch components
> last until
> > the car is in the junkyard from rust and old age while the Lucas
> stuff fails
> > at 35-50K.
>
> I have owned 2 BMWs (early 1970's models) equipped with Bosch
> Alternators - one
> did 150000 miles and the other 120000 without any problems - both
> working fine
> when sold (anyone ever get that out of a Lucas unit?). At one stage
> GM in
> Australia was selling the same model cars fitted with either Lucas
> or Bosch
> alternators. The Lucas ones failed at about 40000 miles, the Bosch
> just went on
> forever.
>
> That said, I do think a lot of electrical problems have their source
> in work done
> by unskilled operators, either owners or garage 'mechanics'. My S3
> had some
> melted wiring which I traced to stupidly wired driving lights. My
> Brock Commodore
> used to constantly blow its interior light bulb (and fuse) because
> of the way
> someone had fitted an after market car alarm.
>
> My 2 cents worth
>
> Vic Hughes
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