[s-cars] let's talk about spark plugs

Taka Mizutani t44tqtro at gmail.com
Fri Dec 29 15:16:19 EST 2006


Much, much better than toasting the engine.

When our old A4 1.8T ate a center electrode, it caused cylinder head damage
and scored the piston tops, to the cost of $2500+.

Taka


On 12/29/06, calvinlc at earthlink.net <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I lost a center electrode as well, and that was on a totally stock engine.
> Luckily the electrode got wedged between the insulator and the ground
> electrode....unfortunately this caused the coil to burn up, but much
> better
> than a toasted engine...wow.
> --Calvin
>


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