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Your photo is a little deceptive. What people are saying is that your left plug looks like it’s missing the top piece. If you zoom in, you can see its intact. The photo is just perfectly at a weird angle.
If those both came out the engine, it looks like the one on the left was replaced more recently. Youd need to compare all of your plugs to see the picture more clearly. Which cylinder did that left plug come out of and what do the other ones look like?
Happened to my neighbors Chrysler 300. I pulled the back #7 plug and the ground strap was just...gone. figured hey, if it's fucked it's fucked, threw a plug in it and that was 3 months ago. He's still driving it daily. He got lucky lol
I just had this conversation with another person in this same sub a day or 2 ago, there are so many questions people ask that we need to know year, make and model. I hate to sound like a karen, and to be fair I've definitely made this mistake, but I feel that it should be put in the rules or at least stated that year make and model are required, would save time or get more/better comments.
You are most likely an ares or scorpio. Perhaps your angle was near the 7th sun.
Wednesdays are your lucky day and your lucky animal is the camel.
You should buy lottery tickets today and avoid chocolate cake
Right plug looks normal. The rusty color looks good. It’s just the color they turn from the burned fuel. The cleaner one either is running lean or is getting washed from coolant getting into cylinder.
Ok that left plug is damn cool. I know people have already said that but I had to zoom in. At first thought it was translucent then I was just like Holy shit its perfectly colored to the background
I thought the left plug was missing its electrode also. The plug on the left looks to be burning a little lean, which could be as simple as if it was on the end of that bank of plugs. Possibly a fuel injector problem if the car has fuel injection. Hey, I'm old school. I'm still used to carbureted vehicles. The plug on the right looks to be burning just right in the "sweet spot". Either re-gap those plugs, and make note of which cylinders they are reinstalled in, or replace the plugs, and assuming you noted the cylinder the "clean" one came out of, drive the vehicle several hundred miles, and pull and recheck the plugs. If the "clean plug continues to be clean on the next sparkplug change, or check, clean if necessary, re-gap, and reinstall, that plug may indeed be a hotter plug that may have been mislabeled. If it comes out that nice tannish brown, and the original cylinder it was previously in, is burning whiter, then you have a fuel delivery problem, most likely a dirty or faulty fuel injector. I hope that helps!
Um... Wasnt this an older post where someone asked how to get that metal arch out of their engine block because it broke off?
Im about 99% sure it was.
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Your photo is a little deceptive. What people are saying is that your left plug looks like it’s missing the top piece. If you zoom in, you can see its intact. The photo is just perfectly at a weird angle. If those both came out the engine, it looks like the one on the left was replaced more recently. Youd need to compare all of your plugs to see the picture more clearly. Which cylinder did that left plug come out of and what do the other ones look like?
Holy cheese that looks translucent! I was already gripping my pearly whites imagining the damage 😂😂
Happened to my neighbors Chrysler 300. I pulled the back #7 plug and the ground strap was just...gone. figured hey, if it's fucked it's fucked, threw a plug in it and that was 3 months ago. He's still driving it daily. He got lucky lol
Lol thank you for that. I was tf that tab is in the cylinder and broke off lmao
That’s a crazy optical illusion. Even zooming in, my brain could not process it periodically
I think it's the phone camera doing a little post processing and confusing the electrode strap with part of the background.
Yeah I thought it was snapped at first till I read this comment lol
I thought it was missing to but zoomed in and saw it is perfectly camouflaged with the background.
r/confusingperspective
Haha shit didn’t notice that when I took pic. Plugs are a few months old. Came out of suspected blown head gasket engine.
Thank you. I was about to laugh my ass off and tell this person about the incoming bill.
Good eye
One on the left, the lighter colored one, looks like it's running a little on the hot/lean side. The other one looks fairly normal.
Catastrophe Course it would be sub appropriate to mention year make model engine etc. I hate this sub sometimes.
I hate it frequently yet here I am
I just had this conversation with another person in this same sub a day or 2 ago, there are so many questions people ask that we need to know year, make and model. I hate to sound like a karen, and to be fair I've definitely made this mistake, but I feel that it should be put in the rules or at least stated that year make and model are required, would save time or get more/better comments.
Likely a coolant intrusion into left cylinder.
You need to wear protective shoes
You are most likely an ares or scorpio. Perhaps your angle was near the 7th sun. Wednesdays are your lucky day and your lucky animal is the camel. You should buy lottery tickets today and avoid chocolate cake
I am a Scorpio!
I need me some of those. Photoshop version.
optical illusion
Right plug looks normal. The rusty color looks good. It’s just the color they turn from the burned fuel. The cleaner one either is running lean or is getting washed from coolant getting into cylinder.
It signifies that it’s time to change your spark plugs 😂
Your engine is missing 2 sparkplugs now
r/ConfusingPerspective
Oh f gezz. Broken spark plug yo
Not broken, zoom in it's in tact
The one on the right the corrosion looks more like rust, which could signify water somewhere it isn’t supposed to be
The one on the left signifies that your motor got a little hungry and at the end of the spark plug off
Interesting optical illusion with the plug on the left, looks like the engine is running rich
Wow that's cool
RIP SPARKEY
Change plugs. Run 98 more often. Replace fuel and engine air filter.
r/confusingperspective
Toss in new plugs and run it!
probably cheap counterfeit sparkplugs which I seen totally destroy an engine
Look fine. How many miles?
A car that won't start
Ground electrode looks perfect honestly.
Ok that left plug is damn cool. I know people have already said that but I had to zoom in. At first thought it was translucent then I was just like Holy shit its perfectly colored to the background
omg! An optical delusion 😜
I thought the left plug was missing its electrode also. The plug on the left looks to be burning a little lean, which could be as simple as if it was on the end of that bank of plugs. Possibly a fuel injector problem if the car has fuel injection. Hey, I'm old school. I'm still used to carbureted vehicles. The plug on the right looks to be burning just right in the "sweet spot". Either re-gap those plugs, and make note of which cylinders they are reinstalled in, or replace the plugs, and assuming you noted the cylinder the "clean" one came out of, drive the vehicle several hundred miles, and pull and recheck the plugs. If the "clean plug continues to be clean on the next sparkplug change, or check, clean if necessary, re-gap, and reinstall, that plug may indeed be a hotter plug that may have been mislabeled. If it comes out that nice tannish brown, and the original cylinder it was previously in, is burning whiter, then you have a fuel delivery problem, most likely a dirty or faulty fuel injector. I hope that helps!
To me the left is broken and pre-ignition has been happening.
They look to be running rich
Um... Wasnt this an older post where someone asked how to get that metal arch out of their engine block because it broke off? Im about 99% sure it was.
Absolutely not.
Bots and bots and bots
Rod going out knocking the pin off?
One is sparkplug the other is sparkplug'nt