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You I should have thought of that as it happened to my '86 wagon one day.
I only had a tiny bit of early warning a few days before. Just a miss or hesitation once.
Later I took my wife to a place just three blocks from my sister-in-laws house for an appointment and got there early so I shut it down until my wife went in. She did that and I tried to restart the car to go farther into town but It was dead to fire up. Cranked but no zip and plenty of nada!
My car, turned off differently than your car! (:-)
My first suspect is always ignition. I had spark from the coil to the strut tower. Out of curiosity I popped the distributor cap because I remembered the miss and pop earlier.
Sure enough I saw that the rotor button was fried across the top where they embed a resistor.
I said shoot, I need one of those. It was then I remembered my sister-law has a '73 VW Bug! They use the same button. So I walked back the three blocks, plucked her rotor button and walked back to my car.
In it went and away I went to the parts house. They claimed the Volvo was different and showed two or three styles now! Wow, was I lucky!
I guess there are two different shaft sizes within distributors and what shape they want to make the counter weight blob! Depends on the series Volvo. Got to change something to create hassles!
Got the new one put it in and got my other errand done by the time my wife was ready to go! Via a return to her sisters house of course!
Now, I carry a spare in all my cars!
Rotor buttons made with carbon and timing belts made of black rubber, if one can't get you look for the other!
You were closer at thinking electronics than I. I am glad for you it was not those things or the timing belt.
Thanks for the post back follow up!
Phil
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