hey guys, been having some dramas with my 2.0 lately, past few months or so.

- Car is sometimes hard to start, vary rarely, usually after short drives. This can usually be overcome by having the ignition cranked and the accelerator pedal all the way to the floor, then it comes to life. Like I said though it's very rare.

- On 3 occasions in the past 6 weeks, the car has died on me while idling, shortly after starting up and taking off. On 2 of those occasions, the car started back up normally, but on one occasion it took a while, had to use the technique mentioned previously.

- Have taken it to my mechanics to check but they couldn't find anything wrong with it, it never played up while it was in their care (doesn't that always happen!) Going off my explanations they think it is either the crank angle sensor or the ignition module/coil

- This morning I took off from home and did two short drives (approx 5mins each), on returning to the car after the second drive it wouldn't start, even after trying to crank it at W.O.T. Had to resort to calling the RACV guy. We pissfarted around for about half an hour, he took one lead off the ignition module/coil and tested it, found there was no spark. Decided at that point to tow it to my mechanics. We gave it one last crank and it magically started up, so I drove it straight to my mechanics and it's there now.

So we still think it's either the C.A.S. or the coil, I'm thinking of just replacing both to (hopefully) put this issue to bed. The ignition module is right at the front of the motor, I'm thinking I'll just replace that myself, if it doesn't work then I'll get my mechanics to do the C.A.S. since there's a bit of labour involved I'd rather leave that till last.

Has anyone had the same experiences that I'm having?