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wont be buying champions, didnt before but never now lol

I have one rule in life, stay away from anything dodge or FCA related

I was going to comment on typical champion quality plugs, but I see everyone else is down with the notion and have made comments appropriately. 🙂

Lol

How do you spot a Jewish car guy? Champion sparks plugs

I have bought from priority 2-3 times now. If you do your own tire mount and balance or have a tire guy who gives you a deal it’s way worth it. But most tire shops have caught on to the buy cheaper online idea and they get you pretty good for mount and balance Specially if you need TPMS sensors At best I save $200 buying online. You have to wait to get the tires and then pull your wheels off and take them in and swap them etc etc. like changing my own oil only really saves me $20-$30 I’m getting to a age where fuck it I’m just going to spend the money.

I used to work for Champion back when it was "American made", although made in Toledo Ohio, Windsor Ontario, England and Australia
Now they come from China via Taiwan, and — who knows about he quality control. My time was in the 1970's. This I saw a few times, as this particular plug obviously passed the very critical "Crimp" stage on the assembly machine. The upper lip should be obviously pressed down. They is also supposed to be a layer of "filler powder" to seal the ceramic in the shell. Then the crimp stage collapsed the whole thing and the small area below the hex but above the lower shell portion is "slightly buckled" producing a firm hold on the whole assembly. Quality control which should have caught this, but in my time we made many many millions of plugs, and maybe got 5 or 6 back. Not bad odds really, showing our quality people did their jobs, but the equipment actually would stop if a step was missed on the equipment, which was a large rotating table affair with lots of sensors and controls.
Your suggestion of a "bolted in" ignition assembly would unfortunately be far worse to deal with as if the plug ceramic did as in your case to simply blow out, no damage could happen, which is how yours ended up. If held in, the ceramic could "bounce around" and probably break, and because of being in a somewhat enclosed area be sucked back into the cylinder which could be catastrophic to the engine. You got "unlucky, but best result of poor luck".
Also, I still use Champions this many years later, as in my opinion they back then did have a superior engineering and technical crew developing the products, (my gang).

Where you in the movie Men in black at one of the shopkeepers?

Wtf champion plugs even my dead dad knows never ever use those always njk v- power duh buttcrack

In the late 90's i did experience this, it is the only time i have ever seen it.
We were in my buddies mercury topaz.
We were just driving down the highway, and heard the same exact sound.
We pulled over thinking the engine was done.
popped the hood, and since it was fwd, we saw the ceramic part just dangling from the plug wire right away.
The ceramic was still intact, so we popped it back in and tried to drive.
It immediately blew back out so we pulled the injector plug and limped it back home some 15 miles on 3 cylinders.
In some ways, old tech is better.

Champion plugs were rubbish 40 years ago.

2 dollars a plug is a major red flag to be honest but i dont really know much about how much it costs to maintain these srt-10’s

your titles are so misleading.