Hi all
Just wondering if anyone has made a similar finding...
Recently bought a 2005 V6 Gxl manual with 88,000 on the clock, one owner, full Tojo service history. When I picked up the car, the first owner gave me all of the service dockets. I interrogated these last week to discover that the major 80k service was done on an elapsed time basis when the car had done only 32k, and as a result, the plugs and diff oils were not changed during the service. Diff oils were done later, but no evidence of plug or fuel filter change. Going away to get it dirty on the weekend, so off to toyota this morning, and I have just changed plugs and fuel filter.
But here is the strange thing... The plugs on the passenger side were NGK, and the drivers side were Denso. All definitely looked nearly 90k old. The electrode on the NGKs were more eroded than the Denso. Has anyone noticed the factory installing different brands of plug? Might explain the car being hard to start and a bit heavy on fuel...
Just wondering if anyone has made a similar finding...
Recently bought a 2005 V6 Gxl manual with 88,000 on the clock, one owner, full Tojo service history. When I picked up the car, the first owner gave me all of the service dockets. I interrogated these last week to discover that the major 80k service was done on an elapsed time basis when the car had done only 32k, and as a result, the plugs and diff oils were not changed during the service. Diff oils were done later, but no evidence of plug or fuel filter change. Going away to get it dirty on the weekend, so off to toyota this morning, and I have just changed plugs and fuel filter.
But here is the strange thing... The plugs on the passenger side were NGK, and the drivers side were Denso. All definitely looked nearly 90k old. The electrode on the NGKs were more eroded than the Denso. Has anyone noticed the factory installing different brands of plug? Might explain the car being hard to start and a bit heavy on fuel...
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