I'm pretty sure
that no car made in the last 20 to 25 years has been made with a distributor cap!
(penrose your dog's got tits, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 12:24, 5 replies)

^this
And most modern cars are almost impossible to start without the keys anyway, hence the increase in burglaries just to get the key...
( TheMattInAHat has a particular... odour..., Mon 26 Apr 2010, 12:29, closed)

Nonsense
My car (T-reg) has one. It has electronic ignition but the spark is still, er, distributed by a distributor.
(Flap Burger hasn't really got a burger made of flaps, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 12:34, closed)

really? fucking hell, what is it?
even Fiats had coil packs by then.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:43, closed)

Ah. OK - point taken.
My mate drives a 1967 Triumph.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 12:34, closed)

Not quite
25 years ago, many cars still had carburettors for fuel mixing, and distributors for the spark. It's only since the advent of the mandatory exhaust catalyst in 1993 that all petrol cars have been fuel injected, and even then, not all had individual coil packs until a few years ago.

And of course, diesel cars have never had distributors
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:54, closed)

BMW used distributors til 1993
So I'm sure a load of tinshit like Peugeots and Fords, let alone the Korean crap, were still using them in this millenium.

That aside, I wouldn't take the actual dizzy cap off, as then the coil charges up with nowhere to go, then earths to wherever it can and goes BANG. Not good.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 14:58, closed)

nah, doubt it past 93 for the reasons K2k6 gives.
it's simply an easier way of getting stable running, so therefore prolonging the cat life.

Oddly, a lot of the Korean shit was fairly advanced, electronically. Pity it's all shit otherwise.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 15:37, closed)

Shockingly, the Kia Clarius ran a distributor until 1999
(good old Autoparts guide.)
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 16:48, closed)

fucking hell, really?
that's pretty special lack of advancement. I'm probably massively stereotyping based on an exes Hyundai.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:12, closed)