{"id":5541,"date":"2025-07-31T02:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:58:15","slug":"failing-spark-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/failing-spark-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing spark plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My 2014 Toyota Prius uses iridium-tipped spark plugs such as the Denso SK16R11 or the NGK IFR5A11, both usually set you back around $20, but if you buy them from the official toyota dealer, they will set you back $150 ! but I have no choice, as the market is flooded with counterfeit spark plugs, and changing the spark plugs on the prius requiers the removal of the wiper area !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about those <strong>$150 spark plugs<\/strong> (I will check the exact price and update this soon, so when I took them out after less than 5000 KMs and found two of them <strong>broken<\/strong> ! specifically <strong>the Insulator Nose<\/strong> (<strong>shield) around the copper core<\/strong> !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a <a href=\"\/blog\/2025\/07\/30\/prius-2014-head-gasket-replacement\/\">failing head gasket<\/a>, and the removal was part of fixing that, so I thought that the seeping oil or water into the piston might have been the problem, but since i maintained their order after removing them, It turns out that the one that has the inner shield fully broken was in a piston that did not suffer any head gasket leak !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sprak_plugs.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"872\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sprak_plugs.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sprak_plugs.webp 872w, https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sprak_plugs-300x282.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sprak_plugs-768x722.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2014 Toyota Prius uses iridium-tipped spark plugs such as the Denso SK16R11 or the NGK IFR5A11, both usually set you back around $20, but if you buy them from the official toyota dealer, they will set you back $150 ! but I have no choice, as the market is flooded with counterfeit spark plugs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-prius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}