Plug wire resistance

["Aaron Aunins" <aarons16v@hotmail.com>]

Hi everyone,
     I have a seemingly very old set of plug wires on my 87 16V.  Three of 
them have the pull rings on the top with BERU ends, and the other wire is a 
stock wire.  Although they don't look that great, I didn't want to shell out 
the money for new wires if I didn't have to.  So I went out and purchased a 
multi meter.  Looking up the procedure in the Bentley, I removed the wires 
one at a time and attached the test leads to both ends and checked the 
resistance to see if it was within the listed values.  They were all about 
5.4K, except for one that was about 6.3K.  This sucks.  My question though, 
is that I had to test each one about three times before getting a consistent 
reading. Since the metal end of the spark plug wire which goes on the spark 
plug is high up inside the rubber sleeve, I couldn't figure out any better 
way to get to it than to put the alligator clips on the test wires and push 
the one up until it just touched the metal connector.  There must be a 
better way.  I can't even see if it is touching the whole time, which may be 
why the value jumped around so much.  I don't have any experience using a 
multimeter, so I don't know if there is a different test wire I should be 
using to get to the receded end of the spark plug wire.  Regardless, it 
looks like I'll be getting a new set of wires.  While on the topic of plug 
wires, are the Blue ignitor wires a decent set?  If anyone has any 
suggestions, let me know. (I know this topic has been beaten into the ground 
before)Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Aaron

87 Scirocco 16V
87 Quantum GL5 Wagon
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