Tune Up No Sooner Than 100,000 Miles?

The LH cars have what's called coil-over-plug. IOW - each plug has its own dedicated coil mounted right over top of it - no secondary ("high tension") wires to replace. It's a very good system - only thing you'll need to do is replace the plugs. Occasionally a coil might go out (though I haven't lost one yet at 140k).

Yeah the book says 100k on the plugs. My advice (Oh no - I'm getting ready to recommed something other than what the factory recommends!!!!!!) 8^) is to replace the plugs at around 70 or 75k miles. For two reasons: (1) Much less likelihood of difficulty in getting the plugs out due to bound up threads - many people have had that problem when they leave them in for the full 100k. (2) You will get

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The mileage benefit may have some truth to it. 30,000 miles ago, I pushed the average mpg button and got a reading to around 22.8 to 23. Now I get

Plug recommendati>> I made a matrix of the maintenance schedule from the factory service

Except there are no plug wires.

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tim bur wrote: