Questioni have a ongoing problem for the past six months with a 2001 hyundai accent.the car wouldn't start,when checking there was no fire on any of the spark plugs.by accident i got the car running.i removed a plug wire from the coil and took a copper wire from the engine block and place it in the coil.crank the engine for two seconds,remove the copper wire.reinstall plugs and wires, car will run great for one to two weeks.the check engine light is not on and there is 100,000 km on the car.
AnswerIf your car has the same ignition system as U.S. models, you have a coil pack with two coils, each with two coil towers. I can imagine that shorting one of the coil towers to ground would "wake up" the one coil to which it was attached, but not both coils. If only one coil was bad, the car should still run on two cylinders (albeit very roughly).
Check to see whether the check engine lamp illuminates for at least a few seconds when you turn the key on (when the condition is occurring). On 2000 and 2001 Accents in the U.S., there's an uncommon problem with the Engine Control Module (ECM) that causes the symptoms your describe. Not knowing whether you have the same fuel management system, I do not know whether this would apply to your vehicle as well. According to (U.S.) TSB 01-36-014, if the ECM is the issue, the check engine lamp will not illuminate when the key is turned to the "on" position, communication with the ECM is impossible, and interrupting power to the ECM (e.g. disconnecting battery and reconnecting) often cures the issue temporarily.
If your check engine lamp does illuminate when you turn the key on, then you should probably begin investigating the things the ECM needs to see to provide spark, such as the crank sensor.
