Re: Bosch Plats are the best?

[quattro@rogerswave.ca]

    Hi!
I have been running platinums in my Coipe for years and all I can say 
is that I never had the problem of fouled plugs as you say (maybe 
your engine is running too rich).  The start even in below freezing 
temperatures has been exemplary!  And the miladge is better.  Not by 
much but if you do 400 miles a week it adds up.  Did you remember to 
regap the plugs?  When buying plugs from the dealer they are already gapped.  
Aftermarket's (Wall Mart) have to be regapped.

> Karl,
> 
> FWIW, I had tried the off the shelf Bosch platinums a while back (in my
> '85 GT) because they were on sale for something like 79 cents each. 
> IMO, what I saved in price didn't offset what I lost in reliability and
> performance.
> 
> Cranking took 3-5 seconds longer to start, and there was a noticible
> miss when I was pushing it hard at high rpms.  Since that platinum
> electrode is so much smaller, it also fouled a _lot_ more quickly than I
> would like to have seen.  And that was before I had done any engine
> modifications; I'd hate to think about running those things now!
> 
> Since that episode I have gone to running the triple electrode Bosch
> coppers (WR7DTC) and been very happy with them.  But please bear in
> mind, they do have a price:  I pay $2.64 each and that's with a discount
> for buying them in lots of 10 and 20 at a time.  There are days that I
> wonder if they were developed specifically for the Audi/VW 5 cyl engines
> since they come packed in boxes of 10, rather than the boxes of 8 that
> most other companies package their plugs in.
> 
> HTH! and YMMV
> 
> Gary
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Gary G. Erickson            Member #82 NW Audi Quattro Club
> Business Solution Integrators, Inc.
> 503-702-5789                  e-mail: erickson@teleport.com
> 
> 
Martin Pajak
quattro@rogerswave.ca
1982 Coupe (426,000 km)
1984 4000s quattro (320,000 km under the wrench)
1970 Porsche 911E Targa (also under the wrench)

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