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01-18-2009, 03:04 PM | #19 |
Drives: yaris 08 sedan Join Date: Oct 2008
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01-20-2009, 02:05 AM | #20 | |
Drives: 08 Yaris Sedan Join Date: Oct 2008
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If you are buying regular ngks you would be paying like 2 or 3 bucks a piece. THe difference? The regular NGKs with copper core will burn out really fast. In a matter of a week. If it dosnt burn out the coil first. Iridiums are designed to withstand the spark generated by the coil. Anything less than a platinum plug will wear out extremely fast. Example. Car came in to my shop last year. He wanted us to change his spark plugs for him. Labor time was 2 hours so roughly 200 bucks. I gave the plugs to the mechanic and he went to work. I walked by to check how he was doing. And when i picked up the plug and looked at it and what came out. I was like oh crap. These are regular 1.50 autolight spark plugs. When this car is supose to take motorcraft platinums. Nothing we could do about it now but finish the job and give the keys back to the customer. I never said anything because if i acted like i knew what happend he would assume i intentionally put them in there to charge him twice or punish him for bringing his own parts. Next weekend the car was back with a horrible missfire. Or should i say missfires. I knew what it was immediately. If i was a asshole i could have charged him a diagnostic fee. But i told him to leave it for a hour. Took out a plug and sure enough the electrode was completely gone. WHen i informed him why it was missfiring he felt like a complete idiot. Him tryign to save himself some money costed him a whole lot more in the end. Charged him again 2 more hours to remove the plugs. Plus almost 100 for the right spark plugs. I ordred these directly from the dealer to make sure they were exact part number. After then car ran perfect. If a car manufacture designed a car to run on a certain part. And if a cheaper one were available they would use it. Anything to save a penny now days. If they could remove a bracket or nut in your engine bay if they felt it wasnt really needed they would. a 5 cent nut times hundreds of thousands of cars really adds up to the bottom line. So if they felt they could ship all yarises with a copper core plug from the factory. They could save themselfs hundreds of thousands if not millions.
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01-20-2009, 02:36 AM | #21 | |
Drives: yaris 08 sedan Join Date: Oct 2008
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01-20-2009, 12:50 PM | #22 | |
Drives: 08 3DR 5M Bayou Blue; 09 Fos Join Date: Oct 2008
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01-20-2009, 12:53 PM | #23 |
why be cheap on something you buy every 8-10 years.
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01-26-2009, 02:01 AM | #24 |
Drives: 2007 Yaris Sedan (Aero) Join Date: Jan 2009
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