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Originally Posted by eikond
I have mixed feelings about this topic. The difficulty of changing the spark plugs wouldn't dissuade me from buy the car new.. but it would certainly make me think twice about buying one used in a few years.
I've had a long string of Nissan 240sx's.. I can't tell you how many times I needed to pull spark plugs as part of diagnosis as you're working on the car. Being able to swap plugs to find a misfire, check the color of the tips to see if it's rich or lean, do compression tests, and other stuff makes a used car or a modified car easy to live with. Having to lift a motor to do any of these things will make this an unfriendly car to own and modify when it's a bit older. I'm not a big fan of this.
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All I can think about whenever somebody mentions that changing plugs is something you do once every five years is when I was driving around with a slightly bad MAF plug on my 240. I was changing out or at least inspecting the spark plugs monthly...sometimes they would show rich, sometimes lean, occasionally not bad.
Then I remind myself that this is a new warrantied car that I'm not going to F with to the same extent as the 240.