Hello from Portland Oregon, and Panama City, Florida.

**Crickets Dragon** · 08-10-2009, 05:21 PM

Good Day everyone. My nick-name is Cricket, and I go by that for all intents and purposes. I live in Panama City, FLorida, but have been working in Portland, Oregon for the last 14 months, and hope to return to FLorida in a couple months.
I bought a new 05 Magnum R/T back in the early days of the wagons, April 04.
All has been great, and I still only have about 40,000 miles on it now. It is Dark Green, and basically a base model, no roof rack(I worry about roof leaks), no sunroof(same reason), and have just a few months ago put on the first tire change, mainly because I did not trust the old rubber, they still had tread on them.

I do have a problem now, and I hope someone can help me, I am 3000 miles away from home, and am in a bad way, sort-of.

This morning my engine light came on, and scared me, but it was not flashing, so I kept driving. After a couple minutes, I started getting smoke coming out from under the hood, with an awfull smell.
I shut off the engine, and opened the hood, and the last coil next to the firewal, drivers side, was melting - kinda like the wicked witch of the west!!
I found a local Dodge dealer, and bought a new coil, thinking it was a fluke, and installed it. Within 3 minutes, more smoke, and a new melted coil. I unplugged it, and continued driving, as the dealer said I could do that to get somewhere, and now am in a quandry. Money is tight, very tight, and I was hoping this could be diagnosed without going to a stealer and hooking to a machine, could get expensive.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Cricket

**monty1269** · 08-10-2009, 05:32 PM

Cricket-
Lemme help ya out.... I'm gonna link this in the "engine/performance section. It will get more exposure.
Unfortunately *I* dont recall this event before...sorry.

**monty1269** · 08-10-2009, 05:34 PM

I linked this to another thread:
http://www.lxforums.com/board/f71/burning-coils-fire-179154/#post2425744

**MOL SRT-8** · 08-10-2009, 05:46 PM

Welcome From San Diego, Ca

never heard of this before. good luck getting it fixxed.

**scoot13** · 08-10-2009, 05:49 PM

Welcome and good luck! thats a first for me on that one....I would guess spark plug issue.

**Big Boy** · 08-10-2009, 05:57 PM

Welcome from your new temporary home here in Portland.

I hope you're enjoying your stay in our city.

**richierevs** · 08-10-2009, 06:06 PM

Welcome. I placed my comments regarding the coil in the other thread.

**8yourM5** · 08-10-2009, 06:27 PM

Hey man if you need new coil packs let me know I have the stock ones out of my srt8 for 100$ plus shipping.
Hope you get this all worked out

**Big Boy** · 08-10-2009, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by 8yourM5

Hey man if you need new coil packs let me know I have the stock ones out of my srt8 for 100$ plus shipping.
Hope you get this all worked out

The 05's are different.

**Wetcoast** · 08-10-2009, 08:36 PM

Do the key dance to get the codes that are active first.

Cycle the key on and off three times and the active codes should appear on the EVIC. Then report for further diagnosis.

**BlueBee** · 08-11-2009, 01:30 AM

Welcome to Portland. You need to get the code. The process is explained in a number of threads on here. Post it up once you get it. Which dealer did you go to, they are not all made equal up here....