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I don't buy this, but out of curiosity, I'll ask anyway.
This guy told me the other day that if you gap platinum plugs with a feeler gauge, you will ruin the electrode. Is there even a scrap of truth to this?
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Wife's car: '00 Saturn LS2. Dk. Toreador Red (no joke) / Graphite
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20k miles later, I have shown no signs of "ruined plugs"..... 
99 SVTC, T-Red, #652/2760-12.8.1998
Mother#@%@!* did I sound abstract?
I hope it sounded more confusin than that!
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40k and the plugs are still going.
Ask your brilliant friend how he gaps his platinum plugs.
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I guess it could happen, but it would take an extremely inept person to mess them up. You would just about need to take a hammer and chisel to the plug to do that kind of damage.
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As I thought. Thanks. By the way, it wasn't a friend of mine, it was a customer.
The only reason I thought I might post this is that I have about 20k on my Autolite double platinum plugs (APPwhatevers, I don't feel like going to the shed to get #s right now), and I am noticing very slight rough idle. The only time I notice this is when I am cruising in first at no throttle, as in traffic. I also replaced the wires at the same time as the plugs, with some Motorcraft (not Ford Racing) 8mm wires.
'99 SVT Contour #535/2760, born 11/30/98. Toreador Red / Prairie Tan
Wife's car: '00 Saturn LS2. Dk. Toreador Red (no joke) / Graphite
Sunday Bruiser: '67 Camaro rs/SS350 4 spd. Ermine White / Custom Yellow
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Feeler gauges are the only thing you should use.
Those POS gapper disc are garbage! They are not worth the metal they are stamped from.
The only thing I could possibly state to the contrary is plugs like the POS Bosch +2 or +4 style.
Otherwise you gap EVERY plug and YES no matter even if they say they are pre-gapped.
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It was not broke; Yet I fixed it anyway.
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7K miles Svt 3 liter hybrid....still kicking hard!
3.0 SVT hybrid...all the fixens...Track/Race ready very soon!!!!!! 20,000 + miles
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Otherwise you gap EVERY plug and YES no matter even if they say they are pre-gapped.
Amen! My APPs that were supposedly pre-gapped, were all off.
You mentioned you had Ford Racing wires....and you are having a rough idle problem....not making assumptions, but check the wires.
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Mother#@%@!* did I sound abstract?
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You should PRINT this whole string and go give it to that guy 
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-True LED taillight conversion
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By the way, mine are fine too.
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-SVT wannabe
-Dual escapes w/ 2 1/2" stainless tips
-True LED taillight conversion
- Audi Xenon Projector Retrofit
-Mp3 deck, dual 10s
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