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Golf gti 1989 cabrio no sparkkk

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I wonder if any one can help me I bought a 1989 golf cabrio gti it's white convertible 

It wasn't starting now the car cranks but no spark

I changed
Ignition module
Ignition switch
Ignition coil
Distributor
Distributor cap
New leads 

Check all the wires I still have no spark if I put a live wire to the coil and put a spark plug in the cable from coil and it sparks every time I touch the live wire 
I'm very stuck can someone help me

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sounds like you done the hard parts,  is there fuel going to the injectors? fuel pump priming? i had similar issue, car driove 200 miles then died on the drive, i changed all, from other cars and bought new, turned out was rusty fuel tank, and that the rubbish caked filters and fuel lines , so was all stripped out. Also check Leads in the correct order.. i thought id put back correct but also 1 out.

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The fuel pump primes as it should an turns off after 3 seconds so I beleive that's fine I jus have a problem with the spark the leads are correct but I don't even have spark from the ignition coil so I'm a bit stuck been tryna fix for like 3 months -__-

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look at the coil -ve side, if either of the wires here are shorted to ground that would do it

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It might not have anything to do with it but I had the same problem this week. Turned out it was my fuel pump relay. The pump was priming ect but for some reason was stopping it from sparking. Maybe worth trying ? Got mine from vwheritage. 

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if the relay was shorting inside across from the ground pin to the rev counter trigger pin, that would do it :)

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