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Re: [T3] New spark plugs and a confession


Dave Hall wrote:

>>I do my plugs every 15K, as the book recommends,
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>
>I had an idea the original service interval for new plugs on FI was as low as
>6,000 miles (clean and re-gap at 3000 miles of course).  I've never run them as
>little as that.  Maybe the modern ones are a bit better quality.
>  
>
My '03 Passat has a service interval of 40,000 miles for plug changes.
OEM are those NGK iridium plugs with the two ground electrodes, and
that's what she got put back in. I did mine at 50k (I've been bad- too
busy this summer, in the middle of buying a house) and they had that
nice brownish-gray deposits I expect to see on a plug that's been in a
car 50k miles.

Runs like a new car after that. Averaging 1-2 MPG better, too.

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