Champion or NGK

[crickleymal]

Thinking about changing the spark plugs. NGK CR8E are about £5 from most people or a bit more. The Champion equivalent I can get for about £2.90.

Are Champion that bad? It just seems rather a lot to lash out on spark plugs otherwise.

[Jules-C]

As long as they the correct ones they should be OK, but only saving £5 over several 10k miles

[darrsi]

They seem to go up in price every day, but £5.60 each delivered for Iridium plugs is still bloody cheap in my opinion, compared to what other people are selling them for.
I've only ever bought NGK plugs.

[Seqoraka]

I find this very useful at all.

[celticdog]

Hi Malc,
can you post up the champion equivalent code? I might be tempted to give them a try next service. 

[darrsi]

Hi Malc,
can you post up the champion equivalent code? I might be tempted to give them a try next service. 

http://www.sparkplug-crossreference.com/

[celticdog]

Hi Malc,
can you post up the champion equivalent code? I might be tempted to give them a try next service. 

http://www.sparkplug-crossreference.com/

Nice one darrsi . . . That's a good foccin' website!

[YamFazFan]

I've always bought NGK for my bikes, but when I went to buy a new plug for my lawnmower a while ago I took the old Champion one with me for reference. They only sold the NGK equivalent, which I bought. The sales bloke told me it was a better plug. He didn't say why and I didn't ask...both work fine.

[Larsdad]

Many years ago, an 'old school' car mechanic (i.e. one who knew a thing or two, not just having factory certs on how to plug test gear in!!) told me to use NGK plugs.  When I asked why, he simply said lots of ignition related faults could be cured simply by swapping Champion plugs for NGK ones, even if the Champion ones were new.

Now, I don't want to knock the quality of Champion products, and I use their oil filters with no probs.  But I always use NGKs and change them regularly and I have never had a plug problem...