Here is a intersting one for you guys!

[deadeye]

Well hopefully this picture works. I havent seen this one before. Maybe you guys can figure out whats up with it. I got it figured out, but I want to see what the opinions were on it.

Its out of a 97 Olds Acheiva with a 2.4 DOHC.

[Macgyver55]

Normally this is from using fuel additves. Were these found on a normal tune up or were there problems?

[Shack]

Cheap/bad gas, water in the fuel, head gasket, normal with a red tint

What type (brand) of plug is it?

[hondavxr]

It from fuel additives.

[deadeye]

It was found when there was a misfire due to the wonderfull coil setup on those cars. We pulled the plugs just to see what they looked like. A little bit of a suprise seeing them bright red. It was a NGK Iridium IX.

I asked what the heck he had done to his car. I got the typical I didnt do anything. I looked in the backseat and there was a gallon of brand x fuel injector cleaner 3/4 gone. BINGO! He had been pouring in a healthy dose each time he filled up for the past 2 months. I bet it has the worlds cleanest injectors ever.

Dropped some new plugs in and some coil boots and it was good to go. I ended up changing the o2 sensors as well, just as bright red as the plugs. Hopefully the cat was able to take the abuse.

I guess it goes to show that there is too much of a good thing

[Jeremy airjer W]

That's awsome!!

[ilovefishing]

i got one thats even better, i got dispatched for a no start, tried jumping the vehichle with no avail) towed to shop suspecting vehichle was flooded only to find 3 out of 6 spark plugs burned down to the porcilen with a gap of .100 and the other three were at .8 when spec was .5 how this vehichle ever ran is a miracle.i forgot to mention the vehichle had 200,000 on the original plugs and wires only 1 broke off but was able to retrieve it out (dodged a bullet there)

[Jeremy airjer W]

I've seen a few of those over the years. Kinda fun to get the feeler gauge to see what the gap is since the go right off the gaper scale!!! If those plugs where in a dodge they usually work until the first cool damp day in the spring. We see more flooded dodge trucks on those days than anytime in the winter. For some reason they don't like that type of environment. Last year it got to the point that I could pull the new wires out of the box one at a time and I knew exactly which plug it was for!