At 03:49 PM 05/11/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Hi volks, > > The Bosch Platinums are on sale at Canadian Tire this week ----- are they >worth paying three times the normal price for Plugs??? > Not unless your engine came with them. Use standard Bosch Supers if they are original equipment for long life and good economy. When the Platinums came out, Mercedes tested them throughoughly and advised their data showed a barely perceptable improvement with the Platinums and continued to advise Supers as most appropriate. Lots more cost, little if any extra ummph or life, not ecomomically sound.
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