Gabby1
03-31-2013, 07:57 AM
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I purchased “Granatelli Performance Coils” after reading threads here at Mercury Marauder.net. I will state, "I" read the opinions and purchased the coils and watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEGOCm2jWPo. I must state, in no way is this awesome site to blame. "I" should have researched the coils more and would have discovered “Granatelli Performance Coils” are garbage, in my and only my opinion.
I purchased Granatelli’s “Hi-PERF Coils” from JEGS and installed them prior to 80K mile schedule on my 2003 Mercury Marauder in Jul 2012. I had no issues for 8 months, in-fact, my Marauder had a little more punch.
The fun started March 20, 2013. My Marauder started to buck & choke, the check engine light started flashing, and cars were now on my bumper as I was in the left lane yet driving like a little old lady from south Florida. I pulled off the road and listened to my baby. I smelled un-burned gas and could hear her clamoring for relief out of the exhaust. I assumed she had a bad catalytic converter as I do have experience with that yet not a multiple coil engine machine. I turned around, armed the flashers, and nursed my baby the 10 miles to Brookstone Auto Center (BSA), a Goodyear Dealer near my house in Kennesaw, GA
BSA discovered a dead coil pack and now fouled plug. I thought impossible! After they showed me the recorded data and the plug, I was floored. They explained coil packs go bad, etc., but these new Granatelli’s? They fixed my Marauder. I paid the bill of $263.65, which included the initial diagnostic fee and moved forward. My Marauder was her old self again.
My bliss lasted a whopping 10 days – 10, only 10 days! While driving home March 30, 2013 my mean machine started bucking & choking, the check engine light started flashing and cars were now on my bumper again…Déjà vu! My instant reaction was, “You have got to be kidding me!”
FFWD…back to BSA and guess what? This time it wasn’t just “a” coil, rather 4 more coils were dead! WTF? It was official, 2 coils we dead on the left bank and 2 more on the right bank. The garbage Granatelli sells to us, the consumers, floors me. When BSA swapped the initial coil pack, I had them install factory Motorcraft parts. Needless to say, I had them swap out the remaining 7 Granatelli coil packs, not just the latest 4 to go bad as I had had enough of their inferior products. BSA did their part so after paying $984.51, I drove my baby the 1.2 miles home while yelling expletives the entire way.
As for the Granatelli Company? They should be ashamed for selling the poorest quality automotive parts I’ve ever purchased in my life. I suggest they sell all their inferior products to China as a little payback for their computer hacking against our country.
DO NOT BUY their products!
:mad2:
I purchased “Granatelli Performance Coils” after reading threads here at Mercury Marauder.net. I will state, "I" read the opinions and purchased the coils and watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEGOCm2jWPo. I must state, in no way is this awesome site to blame. "I" should have researched the coils more and would have discovered “Granatelli Performance Coils” are garbage, in my and only my opinion.
I purchased Granatelli’s “Hi-PERF Coils” from JEGS and installed them prior to 80K mile schedule on my 2003 Mercury Marauder in Jul 2012. I had no issues for 8 months, in-fact, my Marauder had a little more punch.
The fun started March 20, 2013. My Marauder started to buck & choke, the check engine light started flashing, and cars were now on my bumper as I was in the left lane yet driving like a little old lady from south Florida. I pulled off the road and listened to my baby. I smelled un-burned gas and could hear her clamoring for relief out of the exhaust. I assumed she had a bad catalytic converter as I do have experience with that yet not a multiple coil engine machine. I turned around, armed the flashers, and nursed my baby the 10 miles to Brookstone Auto Center (BSA), a Goodyear Dealer near my house in Kennesaw, GA
BSA discovered a dead coil pack and now fouled plug. I thought impossible! After they showed me the recorded data and the plug, I was floored. They explained coil packs go bad, etc., but these new Granatelli’s? They fixed my Marauder. I paid the bill of $263.65, which included the initial diagnostic fee and moved forward. My Marauder was her old self again.
My bliss lasted a whopping 10 days – 10, only 10 days! While driving home March 30, 2013 my mean machine started bucking & choking, the check engine light started flashing and cars were now on my bumper again…Déjà vu! My instant reaction was, “You have got to be kidding me!”
FFWD…back to BSA and guess what? This time it wasn’t just “a” coil, rather 4 more coils were dead! WTF? It was official, 2 coils we dead on the left bank and 2 more on the right bank. The garbage Granatelli sells to us, the consumers, floors me. When BSA swapped the initial coil pack, I had them install factory Motorcraft parts. Needless to say, I had them swap out the remaining 7 Granatelli coil packs, not just the latest 4 to go bad as I had had enough of their inferior products. BSA did their part so after paying $984.51, I drove my baby the 1.2 miles home while yelling expletives the entire way.
As for the Granatelli Company? They should be ashamed for selling the poorest quality automotive parts I’ve ever purchased in my life. I suggest they sell all their inferior products to China as a little payback for their computer hacking against our country.
DO NOT BUY their products!