"I have installed many pertronix units. The ones I did have fail. Failed completely. Of course anything is possible."
Yep, VERY possible,
Back in the day when I wasted my time with those &^%$ things I installed one in a customer's mid 70's Chevy tandem farm truck with a BBC.
Almost from the start it would randomly quit at inopportune times, then about the time they'd round me up to diagnose what was wrong it would start.
Finally had enough of that and installed a GM HEI distributor (at my expense) and it's still running flawlessly today. (Over a decade later.)
Had several others drop dead, probably not an issue under warranty if there's a stocking distributor nearby, NOT the case here, and customers get awful cranky when the EI you sold them as a "cure all" for their ignition problems dies and lays up their unit for DAYS 'til a replacement arrives.
Not to be totally negative, have seen a bunch of 'em work well, and for years. In my experience, though, the failure rate was higher than would be tolerated if they were and OEM part.
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