>| Say Dave, just curious.  What crappy brand of spark plug was this so I can
>| steer clear of them??

        They were NGKs put in by the PO. I took them out about 30K ago and
they looked fine then (and the Golf just doesn't get the attention the Syncro
does ;) )... I don't know how long they have actually been in the car, but
it was more than 32K. The one that broken had very little of the electrode
left - the other three had triangular electrodes...

dave