>Quick little thing that amused me recently (I'm amused easily at times).
>
>Despite my usual standard practice of replacing fluids, plugs etc when I get
>a new vehicle I put off replacing the plugs as it ran fine and I'd get
>around to it soon. Well a year later I decided to final replace the plugs
>(still running fine BTW). Pulled out 4 Autoline (IIRC) brand plugs. I'd
>never heard of them so asked an older mechanic friend of mine. Turns out
>they stopped making them in the late 70s. These plugs were over 20 years old
>and still going!
There's an american brand of spark plugs called Autolite. But spark
plugs can last a really long time, if they're the right type, gapped
properly, and the engine they're in is in good tune. Unlike, say,
the engine in our Ford tractor, which goes through plugs once every
15 hours or so.
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