Spark plug Bosch or Autolite

Bosch components made in the EU (this is the important part) are in many cases the items that VW installed on the car in the plant, or better. Take the spark plugs for example, Bosch just prints the VW name on it and VW installs it in the engine.

I found that it had Autolite Iridum spark plugs. They didn’t look bad and were gapped appropriately but I replaced them anyway with the recommended NGK spark plugs. Car has ran perfectly since then with no misfires or stuttering.

I have just replaced the oil and all 6 spark plugs with Bosch Double iridium.

I now have the new plugs which are autolite gapped at .027 as it is suggested by autolite and also in the Bentley book.

As for the spark plugs, both Bosch Iridium and NGK Laser Iridiums are fine, arguably even better than OEM (which are made by Denso, btw).

i changed the original NGK spark plug with new Bosch super 4 spark plugs. a nice improvement but still far from old good performance.

I then changed to a hotter plug the Bosch Platinum plugs and again gapped to .28. Once again the plugs fouled shortly after starting and driving for a few minutes.

Bosch finewires suck dong and AFAIK are not OE for anything even though they claim they're OE for practically every car on the road.

Bosch platinum are trash.

Throw them away, they're shit plugs. Autolite just didn't crack the code for making quality iridium plugs at a super cheap price. I wouldn't even put these in my lawn mower.