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Old Mar 30, 2001 | 08:20 AM
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Anyone buy a spare plug for your Ruby?

$18 at the dealer. Wow, I'm glad there is only one cylinder.

What's up with that?
 
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Old Mar 30, 2001 | 09:25 AM
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Pretty ridiculous isn't it?
It's like the main jets in a Yamaha. $8 each. I pity the people with triple cylinder snowmobiles.
 
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Old Mar 30, 2001 | 12:40 PM
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Try www.servicehonda.com they advertise that their prices are 30% cheaper than standard pricing.
 
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Old Mar 30, 2001 | 04:18 PM
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They are nice plugs. They are NGK Iridium tipped so you dont have to buy a high performance one in the future. Do call up service honda I get all my parts from them.
 
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Old Mar 31, 2001 | 11:13 AM
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I didn't find iridium plugs on NGK's website. Are these the platinum plugs that sell for around $6 at places other than Honda dealers? How about a part number?
 
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Old Mar 31, 2001 | 02:19 PM
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Try looking them up in Dennis Kirk. I could have sworn i saw some in there the other day for cheaper then what you're paying. I hate it when the dealers really stick it to ya like that.
 
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Old Mar 31, 2001 | 04:21 PM
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Yes they say NGK on the side of them. They are not the "Platnum" series, they are iridium tipped.
 
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Old Mar 31, 2001 | 05:21 PM
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TexMud, Now I AM curious. Dennis Kirk only shows standard, Gold Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word Spam wordSpam word  or platinum plugs from NGK. And their most expensive platinum plug is $8.40 including shipping. Can you supply an NGK plug number? Should be written on the porcelin part of the plug or maybe in the Honda owner's manual. I haven't found any reference to iridium plugs by NGK. Maybe it's something brand new or maybe it's a re-labeled plug for Honda so they can sell it for $18 thru their dealers.
 
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Old Mar 31, 2001 | 11:04 PM
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I would be very interested to know what it is so important to run such an expensive plug. I could see where you could make a plug from the most rare materials just to make it a high-profit item.
What could be so unique about the ingnition spark in the Rubicon engine?
 
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Old Apr 1, 2001 | 08:50 PM
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Wannabee, on one side of the plug is say NGK IR as seen here: http://www.ansley.net/temp/plug_2.jpg. The other side says IJR7A 9 as seen here: http://www.ansley.net/temp/plug.jpg.
 
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