I've use them also.  Time has nothing to do with it. Milage does.
Drive for a few hundred miles straight and the coil is dead. This
is only for the original coil.  Replacements are not subject to this
problem.

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          86-SS Syncro
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
                                   92-Jetta GWC
            www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:

> I've been using single electrode bosh platium plugs
> for about 3 years (ever since they came out) and my
> coil is still fine.  Malcolm
>
> --- Derek <helios@SABER.NET> wrote:
> >  >> BTW if those plugs you put in are the single
> >  >> electrode, they are going to kill your coil, and
> >  >> leave you stranded.
> >  >> I've seen that several  times
>
>
>
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