i-want-in,

Please feel free to grace the guys at the Porsche forums with your presence and abundance of automotive knowledge seeing as you have struck out here many times over. :rofl: In all seriousness, all you have done in this thread is spread misinformation. Not much of anything you have said is true or makes sense, regardless of how right you think you are.

I literally just laughed in my Captain Morgan eggnog....nice.

Per NGK and Bosch, the plug gaps on the plugs for the X5 are not adjustable. Take them out of the box and use them. If they have been dropped, then the reduced gap is visible, and you shouldn't use them.

The porsche forum is boring.......they dont break that much. Seriously, I dont know why u guys are worried about plugs anyway, it's not the bane of the x5. Its the whole x5....lol.:nanana: Ok, I'm out-

Later troll. Come back when you get your facts straight and/or have anything at all to offer here.

I was very surprised to see a quad tip.

The plugs from both NGK and Bosch are non adjustable. To be more clear, they mean they are not to be adjusted and come pre-gapped. Anyone who's touched them would also know that it would be pretty tough to get a gap gauge in there with the quad setup they've got.

they even come with cardboard sleeves to keep exactly this from happening

I still look at them when installing them to make sure they haven't been dropped, despite the cardboard or clear plastic protective sleeves.

Msammy is thinking of single electrode plugs, and not even all of those can be gapped by the installer, as the insulator will break on many of them if a feeler gauge is inserted.

I still have my feeler gauges in my roller cabinet though. You never know when you might need to set the points on a classic.