Thank you for posting these commentaries.
What did you decide about the car?
They have not called me from the garage yet. It started this morning but I only got about a mile from home and it died.
??? It wasn't heated so I don't think the coil theory holds water. My tackometer stopped working before my car stalled out so I wonder if I lost an engine?? If I did I'm going to have to look for a "new to me" used car. (my car is a 1984 BMW with over 303,000 miles on it.