My '75-'92 VW Rabbit Haynes sez:

"Every 15,000 miles or 12 months, whichever comes first.... check and
replace as ness. spark plugs." It also includes cap/rotor/points and
plug wires.

Air/PCV/air injection system filters are also included as "replace".

Neil.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> �On these small injected motors, how long is the average plug life? �Mine
> is not a WBX but it had Digifant and it's pushing a van and it's
> a teenie-weenie 1.8 liters of VW power.
>
> Every year? �Every 20k miles? �Anybody want to recommend an interval? �When
> I got the van about 30k miles ago, the plugs were �quite 'eroded'...the gap
> was up at about .040 or .050 but it was still running and starting
> 'normally' and I didn't really notice any gross improvement when I stuck in
> some new plugs.. �Just doing my spring maintenance, Oil, all filters, change
> tranny oil, spray lube all the suspension, alignment check, wipers, etc
> etc. �Plugs and cap, too?
>
> �Don Hanson
>

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