Difficulty of spark plug and ignition coils replacement
 

i think it is about time i changed these. im still looking into the parts but mazda wants over 700 for it but i thinks thats a little high lol. so just how difficult is this to do?

It is so easy a blind man with 1 arm can do it. There are thousands of post's on this procedure, the search icon is your friend.

come nyc, i have all parts, 300 labor included

Let the car cool.
Open hood
replace coils
jack it up
take off spark plugs
replace and you are all set.

its pretty simple. The only thing is if you have the stock intake you will be a bit intimidated by taking it apart. I know I was, I dont have skills under the hood really. Just be careful pulling the hoses out of the acordion looking thing. You could easily break a plastic nipple like I did. Once its off its real easy to get to the coils.

The plugs you just need to jack up the drivers side (i did it with oem jack), take off the tire, and pull down a little flap, and your good to go if you have the right ratchet extensions.

You don't even need to jack up the car... Just turn the wheel all the way to the right.

If you have the money get a BHR Ignition and new plugs

Some people may be able to do it that way but not all. I had to remove the rim to get good access, without that I wouldn't be able to hand thread the plugs and that's a recipe for disaster.

Why the engineers made it difficult to do it? I rather have easy access on everything, like my Mazda 6.

you make no sense at all so shut up

op where are you located? if you are close to me i can teach you how to do it in less than half an hour. if not if sure a local member to you would help ya out. btw i get a discount at napa

I still think its unbelievable that people actually pay $700 for $200 for parts, and a half hour of time...Especially when there are step by step DIY guides on here with pics.

Try working on some gm cars, japanese made car will look like a piece of cake to work on. Dont even bother with german cars, they make ur life a living hell.

cuz not everybody can/wants to do it themselves

If u never work on the car before, u need to get a ratchet, a jack, a pair of jack stand at least, a 10mm socket, 2 different length of extension for the ratchet, plug socket, anti-sieze and some electric grease. Some people have no idea where to get those, and what if somehing breaks/stuck? It can happen and if ur plugs breaks off, most people have no idea how to remove it(gotta drill it out)

The problem is dealership shouldnt try to rip every single person they sees ...

hell yhea nyc. the rear plugs on some 90s luminas are a pita. tilt the motor foward, yhea thats fun. try a plug change on a triton engine and you will want to kill yourself after the first one snaps then only seven more to go

i was looking for an audi a8 a year ago, test drove one and i love the fucking car for its comfy ride and super roomy cabin, but after i popped the hood and look around, i was like forget it, even it was owned by some guy who really took cared of the car, forget about the pita location of almost everything, parts are just ridiculously expensive, 1400 bux per corner for air box for suspension and they almost always fail around 100k miles or less. hell

Really?

It's maybe an hour if you stop to drink a beer. I just did mine, a few hints:

OEM style NGK wires are $30 at Advance Auto Parts
OEM NGK plugs are cheap at Advance or Autozone, you need 2 leading and 2 trailing
OEM style coils are $30 at Advance or Autozone (OEM PN markings)

I just did plugs, wires, and coils on my 2005 with 23k on it. Even with the low mileage it made a significant difference, power is linear to redline instead of dropping off above 8k.

O k a y... :uhh:

Someone say beer and plugs? Sign me up !!!

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^Where outside Philly are you located? I'm just on the other side of the river. Nice rotors, BTW.

Pottstown / Coventry area ... yeah, I got a great deal on the rotors from a fellow forum member a few years back.

The $700 fee the dealership is charging is what they call book time. Some book says it should take a tech to swap the plugs and coils in X amount of hours. Book time is probably 4-5 hours for both. So if it takes a tech 2 hours to do both they will still charge you the book time. The tech will be paid book time as well.

$160 plugs
$160 coils
$380 labor (or what ever is the balance or your quote)

I love the triple redundancy on the jacked up car.. .that is a man who knows how to be safe!

For anyone else jacking up a car without jackstands (and you really really should have some if you plan on working under the car), use wood. A bunch of 2x4's cut 2 to 3 feet long and cribbed up correctly can save your life.

Yuengling...............you lucky bastard. I'm too far west to get it here, so I have to make up for lost time when I visit FL for work.:)

I think he lives pretty close to the Brewery. Gets the good stuff :)