Heavy Vibrate at Idle

[willy343]

Hello All

Had a bit of an issue yesterday, I was sitting in the car waiting for my girlfriend, when all of a sudden the whole car starts to shake quite heavily, turned off the engine thinking that might help it, girlfriend got in the car, I started it up again and still heavy vibration. I tried to drive off and the car kept stalling unless I applied high revs which still caused the car to jump about and it was a very uncomfortable drive. I made about 500 yards before I called the AA and got them to drop me off at a garage, the guy had a look and said it was the ignition coil... not that I would dare go against his word or anything and ive already told the mechanic in teh garage to change out the coil, im just paranoid that as soon as i leave the garage with the new coil another problem might crop up so is there anything else that could cause this or attribute to it?

[pugjim]

From the way you describe it, it does sound like a faulty ignition coil.