I had posted about my experience of unwittingly replacing one out of four bosch ceramic glow plugs with a ngk in my 2005 golf last summer june 2008 after the dealership parts department gave me the wrong part.
Ceramic vs steel glow plugs.
Here is the part you need.
Ceramic glow plugs have the ability to heat up more quickly than metal types and in addition can gain higher operating temperatures for an extended period of time.
They re pricey but the short glow time is nice.
Ceramic glow plugs utilise a heating element which is encased in a special type of ceramic silicon nitride.
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Pd glow plugs steel versus ceramic.
I have a new engine and am trashing the ceramic plugs and reflashing the ecu and installing steel the 1 minute faster start up ceramic plugs costed me 8 000 as the broken plug destroyed.
He was having poor starting problems and is kicking himself for throwing out 3 perfectly good 25 plugs.
Compared to a metal glow plug ngk ceramic glow plugs have a more robust ceramic heating element which is encased in a ceramic insulator.
I had a call by a club member who replaced his ceramic plugs with steel ones without a reflash.
150 is an average price for a reflash to use steel glow plugs.
The glow plugs are steel.
I had a ceramic glow plug fail and break apart in the engine subsequently destroying the entire engine gouging up the bore hammering the piston and head.
This pure ceramic design unique to ngk has extremely good thermal conductivity properties and can withstand very rapid heating times over extended service periods james explained.