distrubitor

Hey I was driving around the other day and my car jus died on me so my stepdad had it towed to good year and they looked at it and they said it was the distrubitor. My car would turn over but its like there was no combustion or anything or like fuel wasnt getting to it. So they ordered a new one and they said it had to come fron TN and I live in FL so my car isnt gonna be ready till monday but what would be the cause of this? I have a 99 ex

Hmmm distributor on a 99 ex. If it has very high mileage i could see this but other than that its probably a guess. They probably figure if the distributor comes complete with the ignitor and coil then they sould be able to fix it since they can't single out the bad component.