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Champion or NGK - crickleymal - 28-07-15
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.
Re: Champion or NGK - Jules-C - 28-07-15
As long as they the correct ones they should be OK, but only saving £5 over several 10k miles
Re: Champion or NGK - darrsi - 28-07-15
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.
Re: Champion or NGK - Seqoraka - 11-08-15
I find this very useful at all.
Re: Champion or NGK - celticdog - 11-08-15
Hi Malc,
can you post up the champion equivalent code? I might be tempted to give them a try next service. :rollin
Re: Champion or NGK - darrsi - 11-08-15
(11-08-15, 09:03 PM)celticdog link Wrote: Hi Malc,
can you post up the champion equivalent code? I might be tempted to give them a try next service. :rollin
http://www.sparkplug-crossreference.com/
Re: Champion or NGK - celticdog - 11-08-15
(11-08-15, 09:09 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=celticdog link=topic=17790.msg206918#msg206918 date=1439323405]
Hi Malc,
can you post up the champion equivalent code? I might be tempted to give them a try next service. :rollin
http://www.sparkplug-crossreference.com/
[/quote]
Nice one darrsi . . . That's a good foccin' website!
Re: Champion or NGK - YamFazFan - 16-08-15
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.
Re: Champion or NGK - Larsdad - 17-08-15
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...