Did my girlfriend's spark plugs today...

[FriboRage]

I did her 02 Hyundai Elantra cause it's at 175k and her mom (the original driver of the car) said the spark plugs had never been changed, and it was doing a lot of chugging and surging, and frequent bad misfires, and she was complaining about terrible mpg's. I couldnt believe it's had almost 200k miles and still on factory plugs!

Here's what I pulled out...

And here's a new one..

The electrode is almost completely gone, and the ground is so rounded off and eroded away and the gap was so huge, Im surprised it was even making spark.... one had some oil gunk on the insulator.

I drove it before and after and the difference was unbelievable. At first it felt like it had a heavy trailer hitched onto the back, just no go even when the motor is screamin, choppy and rough. After the plugs changed it was like zooooom... smooth, steady acceleration. She's definitely much happier with her car now :th_thumbsup-wink:

 

[Explicit_Spade]

Female drivers.... SMH.

 

[cerick08GP]

Been there, done that.:th_laugh-pointup:
I have yet to meet a woman who doesn’t drive vehicles intothe dirt. Heck, I've never known one thatdoesn’t pile drive them.:th_jester:

 

[Mater]

been there done that but on a car i bought to part out and scrap here is what 210k 3100 plugs look like (drove the car for a month)

 

[Pure2sin]

Where are the pix of the girlfriend?

 

[Sandman]

Where are the pix of the girlfriend?

I concur

 

[Zef_66]

Where are the pix of the girlfriend?

And the mom, please.

 

[Bio248]

suppose i should probably change jackies plugs sometime. she is running up on 50k miles pretty quickly now.

 

[kyle99gtp]

Those are fine, clean the tips with some sandpaper and throw them back in.

 

[Curtis]

just wait til you all get old like me, my wife can and does change her spark plugs! (even knows how to gap them!)

 

[Peacher213]

I just bought my gtp off a girl at work...She took better care of it than 90% of ppl I know. I was blown away at how clean and upkept the car is. Drives like a brand new car at 146k.

(PIC to the left is day I bought it from her, Since then, I have removed the cardinal brow on the windshield, and debadged the trunk. Oh yea I smoked the tail lights too... :th_winking: