New Spark plugs-wow - Page 2

LightWerkz · 12-19-2012, 04:18 PM

I will be honest, I didnt notice much after they were changed out at 27k.

paradocs98 · 12-20-2012, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave07997S

My car is at South Bay BMW for a oil change and replacing the driver side parking and DL. Turns out at 26k miles on my car they are changing the spark plugs and doing a diffy service.

Dave

Similar for me--had the car in for a routine oil change several weeks ago. Spark plug change wasn't even on my radar, but apparently the car called for it when they hooked it up to the service computer. I was at about 20,500mi at the time.

nbennettksu · 01-04-2013, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by C|3R1C

How often do you think the coils need to be changed?

uhm... when you start misfiring and the car jerks. like m3an said, it is NOT a maint. item.

C|3R1C · 01-04-2013, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by nbennettksu

uhm... when you start misfiring and the car jerks. like m3an said, it is NOT a maint. item.

Oh I understood that and knew they weren't a maintenance item lol. I was just curious if anyone knew the estimated life of the coils.

VCMpower · 01-04-2013, 05:19 PM

sensi09 · 01-04-2013, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by LightWerkz

I will be honest, I didnt notice much after they were changed out at 27k.

I didn't notice much of a difference either at like 32K....

Dave07997S · 01-04-2013, 09:11 PM

Got my car back a few weeks back...didn't notice any real difference. Car did seem a tad smoother but thats about it.

Dave

nbennettksu · 01-05-2013, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by C|3R1C

Oh I understood that and knew they weren't a maintenance item lol. I was just curious if anyone knew the estimated life of the coils.

not really; I've seen go out around 20k or last over 100. They're electrical..

edwinm3 · 01-05-2013, 11:42 AM

Did mine recently didnt feel any different

dreamspeed · 01-05-2013, 12:26 PM

Interesting, had no idea that the plugs had to be replaced so often. Usually platinum plugs (Which i assume the plugs are) go 80-100k. But I guess this funny money sucking feature BMW installed shortens the lifespan lol

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