Bosche Nightmare(WARNING)

[clipsekid99]

Ngk Bpr7es

[Talont28]

Originally Posted by endlessheart666

Okay, so my friend and I decided to change out the plugs on my GST. We went to O'rileys, bought some NGK's and proceeded to pull the Bosche plugs. Well we started on cylinder 1 and carefully pulled the 5 month old plug out and out of no-where the plug snaps inhalf at the base. I had never had this happen before and wasn't sure what to do but we finally rigged together an "easy out" system but never tried it though being afraid of metal shavings getting ontop of the cylinder. So somehow we dragged the damn thing 2 miles up to the local car place(Jiffy Lube equivalent) and waited an hour for them to look at it and they wouldn't touch the damn thing without spending $2000 to remove the head(I overheard them charging someone $250 for some new plugs and wires and $400 for a fuelpump ) so I knew it was bogus. So we got a tow-truck and took it to a local import shop and the guy there ended up riging up the same fuckin "easy out" system we did and he got it out in about 20 secs with no trouble(and with no charge). After studing the broken plug it turned out to be a manufacturer defect and it had been broken the whole time The new NGK's make my car backfire a little but nothing major. Right after all this I looked online and there are a lot of people that have had this happen with this company. SO BEWARE OF BOSCHE! DO NOT BUY FROM THEM!!!!

yea bosche is junk...working at an auto parts store i hear worse things about boshe everyday.... the best for out car is a bpr7es

Jesse

[Gsx_hooptie]

Good write up.

Didn't Martin have a thread about Bosche plugs that was a sticky awhile back?

Sometimes it's the simple jobs that go to hell. I had my car on jacks for days after I lodged my deep well socket in the spark plug cylinder. Then, a month later, it only took a few hours to swap in a couple grand worth of mods.

One crappy plug has the power to f' you up.

[-Josh-]

Delco or NGK are top notch plugs.

Bosch plugs are junk, we've had so many problems with people putting them on their cars at the shop i work at.

[clipsekid99]

Originally Posted by Gsx_hooptie

Didn't Martin have a thread about Bosche plugs that was a sticky awhile back?

Ya, I guess we forgot this one when we were trying to get the old stickies back up.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...ht=96spyderman

[1stGenRocks]

NGK BPR6ES's for mostly stock cars NGK BRR7ES's for more modded cars

[GTPSPEED]

shit,i have those in my car now and have had them over a year,now i am going to shit my pants when i take them out,now if i bring it to a shop and have them do it its there problem right?so i will put the worry on there hands.

[Turbodog97]

Not necissaryily, if you are that worried and going to have someone else change them, just go to a regular car shop that does spark plugs and act like nothing is going to be problematic. If one breaks it's not the end of the world.