Spark plug wires

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Wild Monkey

Discussion Starter · Feb 8, 2002

I was looking for plug wires on vwaftermarket.com and saw that they had plug wires with and without pins. What's the difference and how do I know what I need?

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Bob Roberts

· #2 · Feb 8, 2002

Re: Spark plug wires (Wild Monkey)

Never heard of "pins".
Now I'm curious.

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Wild Monkey

Discussion Starter · #3 · Feb 13, 2002

Re: Spark plug wires (Bob Roberts)

I found out that's only for the older models, with the A3 chassis. And ABA engines, I think. Either way, it doesn't apply to my 1999.5 Golf IV.

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Re: Spark plug wires (Wild Monkey)

Pins refers to the type of contact you have in the distributor cap. Take off a wire and look into the cap tower....see a brass pin sticking up in the middle? If so, you need wire set with "pins". Other type distributor caps are just brass cylinders into which you plug a spring contact on the wire set.

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