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| Drag-racing driver Megan Meyer, sponsored by NGK Spark Plugs, greets automotive-industry attendees of the 2018 SEMA Show at the NGK booth. |
By Bill Hayward
If you don’t spend much time thinking about automotive spark plugs these days, don’t feel guilty. You’re in good company. Thinking about spark plugs a lot less often is something that has been to some extent encouraged since, say, the 1980s.That said, some of us are old enough to still remember a time when folk wisdom, perhaps with a push from the auto repair industry, held that an “annual tune up” that included changing ignition parts like plugs, points, and ignition wires, was an essential element of automotive maintenance.
