Zman

I don't know how many miles you have on your Tib, but I've never seen crapier plug wires than OEM Hyundais (Betas at least). My first time they went away after 4 years and only 40k miles in my Elantra. Then I got the Tib and at 25K miles one of them got bad... then my wife's Elantra at 40K miles... man they really suck.
I got the 8mm Magnecors at HP.com (because there aren't any listed on kspec lol.gif ) about a year ago and since then they are more than fine. The idle is more even, and those very ocassional misfires aparently unavoidable with OEM wires, are gone, completely.
They are not cheap though, I paid like $100 and the OEM were like $40 at the dealer.

UltraTibby

^^^ I have the same Magnecor wires and love them. I have had them for about 8-10 months & about 15-20k miles and they are much better than the stock/OEM ones.

Zman

Being that we are talking about wires... aren't there any similar wires (quality I mean) on blue color? My engine bay is mostely blue (black car) and I want wires for my wife's RED Elantra, however, I am a loyal follower of "form follows function and go over show" so if wires must be red, then red they will be. Of course the actual redones would be niiiiiice on the Elantra :twisted:

UltraTibby

I am pretty sure the Nology ones are blue.

'treezy

I have 103,000 miles on car.
NGK spark plug wires are supposed to ONLY be blue, but I've seen other colors of NGK's...some say they're knockoffs, I dunno wtf the difference is... :roll: I ordered wires today, they should be here in 3 days. You guys suggest I park the tib? or can I continue driving with CEL and miss-fire in cylinder 2 and 3 without major engine damage?

UltraTibby

I would suggest parking it. No sense in agravating it if you have another way around.

hamhead

Ehhh... I would park it. Your getting up there in the Tibby's engine life. If the Tibby were a human, its probably around 50 years old now. Its getting gray hairs and Alzheimer's and the abuse a 20 year old college student can take a 50 year old man can't. lol.gif


Hyundai's Projected Time of Death for Beta: 180,000 miles. So I would keep it easy on it.

'treezy

yeah i wish i could just park it, but it's my only way to school.
180,000 damn! The end is in sight!

Zman

take it easy... 77k miles are a lot, besides, I've seen an Elantra here with 320,000 Km and it's oil consumption was only 1/4 of oil every 5000Km, and it's running pretty well. The owner makes a lot of driving, but never misses an oil change or scheduled service, and he uses multigrade SAE 10W-40W with no additives in every oil change, but I'm suspicious... I think he drives like... you know... drivin' Miss Daisy...

hamhead

If there mainly highway miles on a stock car, an engine can go a loooooong way. If its modified like my GSX is, running as much boost as I sometimes do at the track, I'm expecting maybe 40k-50k out of my engine. Thats if I don't get crankwalk first. lol.gif