Bosch Platinum Plugs Vs. NGK

yeah. there were using LED indicator lights in the dash before just
about anyone. high tech stuff, man!

 

Those dashboards were horrible. While the rest of the civilized world
had turn signal indicators in the shape of an arrow, the VW dash
just had a single green LED in the middle of a 10 LED matrix.
Having to take your eye off the road to decifer the tiny icons nearby
the unlabeled blinking LED wasn't a great idea.

 

You should only use Platinum plugs to clean carbon out of your engine.
Better to use it with Premium 92 or 93 octane gas for a few thousand miles.

Then you should switch back to OEM plugs. Do this for each 90 or 100
thousand miles.

I had this happen to me several years back. I would drive my car, and
it would surge(more like buck) sometimes during normal driving. I
replaced plug wires, fuel filter, everything including new platinum
plugs, which I'd already used for the past 20 or 30 thousand miles.

Nothing helped. I later found that the bucking was the engine going
from 1500 or 2500 rpm to 0 in less than a tenth of a second. It ripped
teeth off the timing belt and I went thru 2 of those as well.

$8 later and new OEM plugs solved this problem, but not before I'd put a
hell of a lot of stress on the engine.

My moral (and opinion): Platinum plugs are good for a dirty engine.
They are bad for a clean engine.

Use them only if your manual says to use them, and then, use them when
it says. Don't forget to put OEM plugs back in when the manual says so.


marco