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Can a spark plug fall into the engine?
Do NOT drive a car with a piece of sparkplug inside the engine. It can (and likely will) lead to serious damage (up to a catastrophic engine failure). Get your car towed to a service and have the pieces of the broken plug removed. Additionally, get the oil changed (probably with a flush too, to remove all the debris).
What does a broken spark plug sound like?
Rough Idle A bad spark plug may cause your engine to sound rough while idling. The vehicle-encompassing, jittery sound will also cause your vehicle to vibrate. It can indicate a spark plug problem in which a cylinder misfires only while idle.
How can you tell if a spark plug is broken?
What signs are there that your spark plugs are failing?
- Your car is a rough starter.
- Your car is a rough idler.
- Your engine will sometimes misfire.
- Your engine surges.
- Your fuel consumption is higher than usual.
- Your car isn’t accelerating as it should.
What happens if porcelain falls into Spark Plug?
If so, the damage is already done there, but the damage would be very minimal to a point you’d wouldn’t know there was damage. The porcelain in and of itself would not cause the engine to run good then bad then allow it to run good again.
Can a spark plug drop into a cylinder?
While it could be an issue for the porcelain to drop into the cylinder, it’s not going to make your car run bad. Either there is damage to the engine or components and the engine will run crappy all the time (if it were to run at all), or it will run just fine all the time where you wouldn’t notice anything had happened.
What causes a spark plug to go bad?
Like others have said, I’d have all the electronics investigated, consider that the bad spark plug you had in the first place might have been damaged by detonation caused by over advanced ignition timing or an excessively lean air/fuel mixture – both of these controlled cylinder by cylinder by the DCM.
What to do if porcelain falls into cylinder?
Not sure what I should do at this point, hopefully someone here may have an idea. While it could be an issue for the porcelain to drop into the cylinder, it’s not going to make your car run bad.