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I had a Dodge Stealth that had to have the intake manifold taken off to get at the back three plugs. That was costly, I had a plug wire shorting out blowing the ignition fuse. I had an independent shop replace the plugs and wires, it was around $600. Wires were $85 and 100,000 mile plugs were about$70 the rest was labor.
Labor sure is costly. I havent changed my spark plugs since 1998 & they only have 20k miles on them. The car runs good once its been ran a few miles or so (electronic carb problems).
hehe, called them again today and it was an error on their part and yes, they faked ignorance that I was talking about the 4cyl cause at first they insisted that the 4cyl is $550 as well but then changed their tune when I said I know the spark plugs are on top - seems shady to me. The new price is $120 for the plugs and $185 for the "intermediate" service. The intermediate service is a glorified oil change - mostly inspections and then they change the air filter as well. So a total of $305+tax for an oil change, air filter, a couple of inspections and spark plugs - do you think it's fair?
I can do everything myself except the inspections.
hehe, called them again today and it was an error on their part and yes, they faked ignorance that I was talking about the 4cyl cause at first they insisted that the 4cyl is $550 as well but then changed their tune when I said I know the spark plugs are on top - seems shady to me. The new price is $120 for the plugs and $185 for the "intermediate" service. The intermediate service is a glorified oil change - mostly inspections and then they change the air filter as well. So a total of $305+tax for an oil change, air filter, a couple of inspections and spark plugs - do you think it's fair?
I can do everything myself except the inspections.
hehe, called them again today and it was an error on their part and yes, they faked ignorance that I was talking about the 4cyl cause at first they insisted that the 4cyl is $550 as well but then changed their tune when I said I know the spark plugs are on top - seems shady to me. The new price is $120 for the plugs and $185 for the "intermediate" service. The intermediate service is a glorified oil change - mostly inspections and then they change the air filter as well. So a total of $305+tax for an oil change, air filter, a couple of inspections and spark plugs - do you think it's fair?
I can do everything myself except the inspections.
You can do ALL of it yourself, if you want to.
Plugs are absolutely no more than $5 each. Air filter is absolutely no more than $15. Oil & filter is no more than $25. You can do everything they're going to charge you $300 to do, for about $50.
So... Do you do ANY mechanical work? Vehicle maintenance?
my friends 85 transam with LT1 engine took us 2 hours to get the pass side rear plug in. Back then there were no iridium plugs. HATED working on that damn car. lol
I am NOT looking forward to replacing the ones on my sonata, whole intake manifold has to come off. Grrrrrr If the timing belt goes I think Ill just get another car.
It could take a lot longer if you reverse that order...
Very true!!!!
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