My car doesn't have points!
So, I really don't know anything about cars. Or I didn't. I do now.
I bought an old Volkswagen Beetle and I've had to learn! I was trying to adjust the points (two pieces of metal and a spring) in my bug's engine. I pulled the distributor cap off and couldn't find the points. I looked at pictures in my books that showed the distributor and the points right underneath the cap. I tried turning the engine over with a wrench, which supposedly allowed me to see the points move. Nothing moved. I unscrewed this box with wires that said “compu” on it that I thought was the condenser or something and I took the rest of the distributor apart. No points.
I was fed up and I put the distributor back together and drove to a friends house. Turns out I have electronic ignition, no points, and that box was my computer timing device. Oops! Knowing that would have saved me a 2 hours!
submitted by James from California