Technical Fiat Palio 2008 starts but won't drive

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Technical Fiat Palio 2008 starts but won't drive

KevinTaylo

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3 days ago, while driving to work, after 7km my car stutterd for 5 seconds, I pressed my accelerator and car was back to normal.
Yesterday I drove for 3km (at 5pm) car stutterd, engine cut out. I opened bonnet, started car, saw smoke coming from engine. Injector warning light came on.
Switched off car, had car towed home.

Today, opened bonnet, inspected area where I saw smoke coming from, found (White & green) wire going to front Ignition coil pack (going to cylinders 1 and 3) the white wire was shorting to car body. Cut away burnt piece of wire and put black tape over it. Afterwards, I started car, idling was very rough, not able to drive car like that, switched off car.

Any suggestions as to what issue might be?
Injector warning light comes on.
 
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Front Ignition coil going to cylinder 1 and 3 was cracked and melted (White and green wire from wire harness going to coil melted due to lying against engine body, causing ignition coil to smoke).

ECU confirmed ignition coils were suspect, replaced ignition coils, car back to normal
 
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