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How Often Should You Replace Your Car's Spark Plug Cables?

Spark plugs are essential to the running of a vehicle, helping ignite the mixture of air and fuel to provide combustion to the engine. There are three specific parts of a spark plug, a central ...
Jalopnik

How Often Should You Change Your Spark Plugs?

Spark plugs are one of those maintenance items that, along with things like brake fluid and thermostats, are easily overlooked but extremely important to your car's safety, longevity, and performance.
UPI

Lasers could replace spark plugs in cars

BALTIMORE, April 20 (UPI) -- After 150 years of sparking ignition in internal combustion engines, spark plugs may someday be replaced by laser igniters, Japanese researchers say. A switch to laser ...
Motor Authority

Losing The Spark: Lasers May Replace Plugs For Igniting Fuel

Antony Ingram May 2, 2011 Comment Now! "You can't start a fire without a spark" sang Bruce Springsteen in his 1984 hit Dancing In The Dark. Great line, but unfortunately for old Bruce he wasn't quite ...
Wired

Lasers May Replace Spark Plugs

Much like Jello molds and AC/DC, spark plugs haven't changed much since their invention 150 years ago. But researchers say lasers can ignite an internal combustion engine's fuel-air mixture far more ...