i have had lots of problems with the bosch series that the most of the
flaps sell.  mostly due to bad crimps, after i had the wire pull out of
the connectors on a couple of sets i started inspecting crimps at the
store.  the crimps i have seen are not good.  usually the ones i have seen
are over crimped or not crimped enough.  i have seen them short to ground
this might partially be from the fact that the poor crimp becomes so
high of a resistance over time that the voltage starts leaking to ground.
as crazy as it might sound i observed the voltage running down the outer
jacketing on my brothers golf.

jonathan

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Dennis Haynes wrote:

> I don't know why, but the spark plug connectors shorting to ground or
> opening seems to be a common problem on replacement wire sets. I guess 1
> out of 4 come back to me. I like to go with the dealer sets at
> replacement time.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of John Lauterbach
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:56 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Sparkplug wire question
>
> Have any of you had the situation where you needed to replace a set of
> wires only because the wire to the #3 plug had failed, but the other
> wires were okay?
>
> John Lauterbach
> Macon, GA
> '84 7-passenger
>