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cadetchris
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Spark plugs

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Having had primrose thrust back into the limelight and daily use, as well as the impending naff winter, i have decided to treat primrose to a shinny new set of spark plugs, as the current ones are a mixture of between 5 and 40 years old and horrible nkg variety.
What brand or variety would be good for long life and quality?
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I have had no trouble with NGKs, maybe you are fitting the wrong temperature plugs. Alternatively Champion N9Y (RN9YCC)? are the standard A Series plug.
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No problem with NGKs from my point of view either. Apart from a couple of people on here they are generally well regarded.

I use NGK BCP6ES - although BP6ES are useable too.
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a couple of people
Only one person that I can think of.

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i tried looking for champion, but gave up (grantham is a bit of a backwater) so i went to parkers motorfactors and got some NKG ones, so primrose is working like a dream (well sort of, see http://www.mmoc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=36379 for todays problem)
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Only one person that I can think of.[/quote]
Does that person have a broken dishwasher??? :)
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If so, that that makes at least two of us. If you have a problem, get rid of NGK and fit Champion.
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Maybe my dishwasher just needs new Champion spark plugs ?? :roll:

I'm sure there is absolutely nothing wrong with NGK plugs....... but I have suffered an experience where they didn't work in a mates MGB engine and it cost me a few hours of trouble shooting! Perhaps they were 'resistor' plugs and not compatible with his electronic ignition (although I did try a normal dizzy and they didn't work with that either!) or with his 'resistor' HT leads and caps - who knows..... It started right away with an old set of Champs from my bag! And since Champion gave me some free plugs many years ago -and stickers to put on my racer - i've been faithful to them ever since and never had the slightest difficulty.
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I detect a conflit of interests, carrying Champion advertising hardly makes you impartial :o
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I never suggested or implied that I am in any way impartial! Quite the opposite! CHAMPION PLUGS are the BEST!! :D
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Your NGK's have been in for 5-40 years..........They sound good to me :D
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Re: Spark plugs

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2 where about 5 years old, the others i used to have in one of my wolseley's , which hadnt done much in 40 years
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