Ignition Amp For '87 1.9

[Guest Gidz205]

It may seem that all i can ever contribute to this forum is problems with my car followed by lots of pleases and thank yous. so i'm sorry, thankyou and please tolerate me BUT The ignition Amp's given up the ghost on my early '87 1.9 and i am now sat on the Mrs' computer in her 'tool free' house on the phone to a local motor factors and the bloke's just asked me if it's a 5-pin or a 7-pin . i have absolutely no idea if it is or isn't and without the tools i can't get it off to have a look, so i thought "who'd know better than my fellow 205 owners on here...?" Any help's greatly received, i could buy both and trial and error it i suppose if no one on here knows. Thanks in advance... also, Ignition Amp failure symptoms are turning the key and absolutely no response. the battery's charged, i'm not an idiot. honest.

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

It would be nice if you could use some punctuation to make your topic easier to read instead of jumbling everything into one long sentence.

 

You might need to see if your car has a Bosch or Ducellier ignition amp before you buy one but be warned the cheap ones from motor factors (intermotor) don't tend to last very long at all.

 

Either way form the sound of the choice, five or seven pin, neither will be any good. Both the ducellier & Bosch ones I've got downstairs are six pin.

 

also, Ignition Amp failure symptoms are turning the key and absolutely no response. the battery's charged, i'm not an idiot. honest.

A failed ignition amp will just mean you have no spark when its cranking so it won't fire.

 

Graham.

[MerlinGTI 3]

You get a choice of 5 or 7 pin, but the 7pin is really a 6pin. the 'missing' 7th pin is for something the 205 doesnt need. If you look at the plug on the car loom theres only 6 connectors but with room for 1 more.

 

This is Probably because these amps went on lots of different cars. So 5 or 7 pin yes, but the 205 will only use 6 of those 7 pins. It would make sence that some amps were destined from birth to live on 205's specifically, so they did away with the 'useless' 7th pin altogether in a cost saving exercise. Hence some amps having only 6 pins.

 

Ive confused myself there

 

I would live dangerously and say yours is a '7pin', mines a '88 and 7pin. IIRC the 5 pin were for much earlier models (someone correct me if im wrong!)

 

As PugTorque said steer well clear of motorfactor cheapys, they are crap. You need to look at the make of your dizzy ideally and match the make of amp to that. Not strictly necessary but sometimes they are fussy, I dont know why. New BOSCH ones are about £80 from a BOSCH dealer.

 

Im not far from Sevenoaks (Medway) and have both a Duceller and a BOSCH amp here in 7pin flavour, either yours for a tenner

 

EDIT: My post made no sence

Edited July 17, 2009 by MerlinGTI

[DamirGTI 342]

You get a choice of 5 or 7 pin, but the 7pin is really a 6pin. the 'missing' 7th pin is for something the 205 doesnt need.

 

 

Thats right , on a 7 pin type amp pin No. 7 is "tacho out" signal , and this terminal is unused on a Jetronic/Motronic management ... so either one will do just fine 6 or 7 pin amp ..

 

Damir