I decided to buy some spark plugs for my VW while I was out getting oil and a filter. I was shocked when I saw all the stuff around where the plugs are. Do I need to remove all of it to change the plugs or is there an easier way. Also, if I do have to remove all of that stuff will I be needing to buy any new gaskets?

Thanks.

10/19/2008 2:20:52 AM

2.0, 1.8T or VR6?

10/19/2008 8:53:59 AM

2.0 Still haven't installed the damn plugs.

11/13/2008 10:07:06 PM

Why are you changing them?

I can almost guarantee you don't need to and there is absolutely no advantage to doing so. Don't even start listening to the bullshit marketing of OMG DOUBLE PLATINURAIUM TIPS = MORE POWAR!! crap

11/13/2008 10:13:48 PM

nothing like that at all. I bought the car with 82000 miles on it. Have driven it now to almost 100000 and I have no clue when they were changed last. I keep everything else up to date on it. Regular oil changes, new brakes just random maintenance shit.

This is the first German car I've owned. I've had 11 cars 8 were japanese and 3 were american all of which I could change the plugs on.

I just happened to buy some OEM plugs while picking up oil and a filter and was shocked to see what looked like a process of taking down the whole fuel injection system to get to the plugs.

So basically I have a box of 4 plugs that have been sliding around my trunk for almost a month now.

I fell for the bullshit plugs once and bought the Bosch Platinum +4 plugs for my 05 Corolla and had to replace them with OEM plugs.

11/13/2008 11:32:32 PM

it is a pain in the ass to change them on my brothers 99 jetta with the 2.0

have to remove the whole fucking intake manifold

11/13/2008 11:57:00 PM

100K is a decent interval to change them--although I honestly still wouldn't bother personally unless there was a reason. maybe i'm just lazy, but I don't like doing maintenance that isn't going to hurt anything if I don't do until it needs to be done. Of course fluids/filters are a whole different ballgame.

[Edited on November 14, 2008 at 11:08 PM. Reason : and by reason i mean performance/fuel mileage reason..]

11/14/2008 11:08:10 PM

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"I've had 11 cars 8 were japanese and 3 were american all of which I could change the plugs on."

you sure about that? because it kind of sounds like you hardly know what a spark plug is, much less ever changed any.

11/15/2008 12:33:47 AM

^ wat?

11/16/2008 2:55:24 AM

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"have to remove the whole fucking intake manifold. "

thats incorrect sir. all you need is a stubby ratchet. there is plenty of room

11/17/2008 5:42:17 PM

i actually can't find a single tutorial that says you need to take the intake off. ragged may in fact be correct for once.

can anyone confirm?

11/17/2008 5:57:53 PM

well i owned a 2. slow jetta and didnt need to take off the intake mani to do a tune up. if it says it great. but i know you dont have to. if im right about 1 thing ever on this site it would be about this.

11/17/2008 6:06:56 PM

you dont have to take the manifold off but given how easy it is to pull it and how much i dislike those stupid plug wire tools i just opt for taking the manifold off for the job. 2 bolts in the back, 5 or 6 up front including some between the runners, intake boot and off it comes. dont tear up the gasket and you can reuse it.


just a personal preference ive developed out of the god awful number of 2.0 tune-ups ive done by now...

11/17/2008 9:53:14 PM

you do relize there is only 2 plugs underthe manifold. the other two are right on the outside of it. there is so much room there that you can pull the wires off at the base of the plug. why would you make more work for you. after you take that upper off you got to put a new gasket on then fiddle with extra parts and nuts and bolts

11/17/2008 10:34:48 PM

like i said its a personal preference on how i do the plugs and id be willing to bet i could have the manifold off, plugs changed and back on while youre still in there fighting with pulling the wires and getting the two plugs under the runners, that of course i know are there, out...

11/18/2008 9:54:27 PM

i got ya man its all good.

11/18/2008 10:17:39 PM

I have a feeling slownigger would have fucked it up no matter what the situation was

11/22/2008 6:18:36 PM