You Know Your Sparkplugs are Overdue When...
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You Know Your Sparkplugs are Overdue When...
Your car starts hesitating like it was switching constantly from full retard to full advance.
The car also felt really, really sluggish. I guess what didn't help was that the air filter was filthy as well, so really a bad mix.
So I got them changed, as per the recommended schedule (18$/plug).
And now the car drives fine and smooth, and feels a lot more hearty.
Time for some track testing. I'll get the numbers down this weekend. Watch out for videos.
The car also felt really, really sluggish. I guess what didn't help was that the air filter was filthy as well, so really a bad mix.
So I got them changed, as per the recommended schedule (18$/plug).
And now the car drives fine and smooth, and feels a lot more hearty.
Time for some track testing. I'll get the numbers down this weekend. Watch out for videos.
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Sauce, is the mileage up to date in your sig? 175,000km?
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Another question .... Do you all not plan to touch the plugs till 100K mi. or will you take them out, gap them, and clean them sometime before that? What did you do ManSauce?
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Are the plugs easy to remove?
When i was running the icebox I noticed that there seemed to be more carbon accumulating on the exhaust tips which makes me wonder if the plugs are a little dirty already.
When i was running the icebox I noticed that there seemed to be more carbon accumulating on the exhaust tips which makes me wonder if the plugs are a little dirty already.
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Are the plugs easy to remove?
Its a piece of cake, if it takes you over an hour to change the plugs on a TSX you should NOT be working on your car. Its a very straight forward job, remove nuts that hold cover on, unbolt coil packs, unplug coils(or just be careful when pulling them out and lay them on there side), then remove the plugs and install new ones and reverse the above steps.
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Another question .... Do you all not plan to touch the plugs till 100K mi. or will you take them out, gap them, and clean them sometime before that? What did you do ManSauce?
BTW, I'm now at 178,500km. Which is 111,500 miles in American language.
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