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So my cars at Toyota right now that has anybody gotten the 60,000 mile tune up yet they're trying to charge me like six hundred bucks for 4 spark plugs is that accurate?
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Yes, that's correct. The reason it costs so much is that the plugs are on the underside of the engine in a position that is difficult to access. The official procedure for changing the plugs is 16 pages long on paper and involves pulling the exhaust apart in two places, disconnecting the engine from the engine mounts and lifting the engine four inches using a special hoist that mounts on the shock towers, then raising the car with the engine hoist attached and replacing the plugs from underneath. It's complicated enough that even many of us who have the tools and technical ability to do it are willing to pay the $600 to have a dealer tech do it instead. People have found ways to do it without raising the engine, but they all seem to involve having tiny Japanese child hands or using an unwieldy combination of extensions and wobble joints that seem to me to just be begging for cross-threaded spark plug holes.