Wednesday 20th June 2007
Sparky
Bosch makes ten billionth spark plug
Here’s a fact for the day: Bosch has just made its ten billionth spark plug.
The anniversary plug was made at the company’s Bamberg plant in Germany which was opened in 1939 and has manufactured the majority of the company’s output.
Laid end-to-end, the Bosch spark plugs would form a chain stretching for more than 560,000 kilometres, circling the equator approximately 14 times.
So now you know…
Discussion
I have just played the great spark plug rip off; trying to establish the difference in price, quality and perfomance for copper, iridium and double platinum. It would seem that longlitivity is really the only benefit as copper typicaly lasts 12-16000 miles, and the others between 60-90,000 miles.
Price difference?
Standard Copper: £18 for 8
Double Platinum: £156 for 8
Doubt if I will have the car in another 80,000 miles time.
Price difference?
Standard Copper: £18 for 8
Double Platinum: £156 for 8
Doubt if I will have the car in another 80,000 miles time.
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