Hi Folks-
I picked up a used 97 Altima last week to commute with in order to save fuel.
Since then, I have been doing some catch up maintenance on the car, and over the weekend I replaced the spark plugs. I noticed that the spark plugs on either end of the motor were quite oily...as were the 'tubes' connecting the plug wires to the plugs.
Interestingly, the two middle plugs were dry and just looked like they needed general replacement.
Any ideas as to why the ones on either end would be oily like that?
The car was showing codes for a while for an EGR (since fixed and computer reset) , and I was told that the computer will actually retard timing to operate in safe mode until the problem is rectified. Would operating the car with the timing retarded cause this at all? Just wondering- Thanks
I picked up a used 97 Altima last week to commute with in order to save fuel.
Since then, I have been doing some catch up maintenance on the car, and over the weekend I replaced the spark plugs. I noticed that the spark plugs on either end of the motor were quite oily...as were the 'tubes' connecting the plug wires to the plugs.
Interestingly, the two middle plugs were dry and just looked like they needed general replacement.
Any ideas as to why the ones on either end would be oily like that?
The car was showing codes for a while for an EGR (since fixed and computer reset) , and I was told that the computer will actually retard timing to operate in safe mode until the problem is rectified. Would operating the car with the timing retarded cause this at all? Just wondering- Thanks