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The hardest part was finding a 3/8" extension, I found 8 1/2" and 1/4" in my hoard. Home Depot to the rescue, $3.74. Anyway, removed the DI cassette and the plugs were staring me in the face. Replaced the plugs, applied dielectric grease to the boots and done. The car was idling a little rough and threw a "random mis-fire" code. I guess 40K is good for plugs. They were almost $9 each for exact replacements, since they are also sensors for the ignition I figured it was worth the $.
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Sometimes plans just work, if I tried that, my luck would have me car pooling
With my wife to work Monday and calling my mechanic for help.
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Plugs should go 100k miles. Plug wires, not so much. Pop the hood at night in your garage with the door open to see if the wires have any arcing.
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Plugs ? What are those ? Haven't replaced plugs or wires in my Civic in 170K miles. I keep expecting something to go wrong, but.. keeps on humming...
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The car is 7 years old and I just started doing a lot of stop-and-go driving, recommended change is 60K.
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SDGuy wrote:
What are these "boots", "wires", "code", and "sensors" of which you speak?!!??
That's awesome! Those are kinda like plug "wires" in the first photo...
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"Tuneup"?? There's no such thing as a tuneup on a modern car. Replacing plugs hardly qualifies as a tuneup.
