Diesel engines ignite the air/fuel mixture with heat generated by friction and compression, while gasoline engines use the heat caused by a spark from a spark plug. That's why diesel engines are ...

You own a diesel-powered vehicle and are thinking of giving it a tuneup. But does your diesel even have spark plugs to change? The short answer is no, diesel engines do not have spark plugs. Instead, ...

The odds are pretty good that your car doesn’t have glow plugs. Spark plugs, probably, but glow plugs are pretty much for diesels only—they’re used to introduce heat to the combustion chamber in ...

Diesel engines run on fuel that’s much thicker than gas, adding to the difficulty of cold-weather starts. To aid combustion, small electric heaters called glow plugs warm pre-combustion or combustion ...

When the C8 Corvette came out, it fulfilled one of the two big, longtime Corvette dreams: a mid-engined 'Vette. That other dream, I think we'd all agree, is the dream of a smoky, slow, diesel Corvette ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The latest market research report by Technavio on the global automotive glow plugs market was valued at over USD 6 billion in 2017. The report segments the global automotive ...

GM has issued a special coverage bulletin for certain units of the 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 equipped with the 3.0L LM2 turbodiesel Duramax engine that may have been produced with a faulty glow plug ...