Holy Crap! Up to $165 in parts...

And I'm doing the tune up myself! Now, I get my parts at wholesale, so I
can't even imagine what dealer prices are!

The only plugs I can get for my Supra are $9 each, a total of 6. That's
$54, just for plugs. The price was the same everywhere, but the dealer
can't get them 'til Tuesday (Hey, that'd be a good name for a band!)
OK, I lie. I could have used NGK Copper for <$2 each, and then had to do
it every 20-30,000 miles. NO THANKS! Iridium plugs are $12 and were on the
shelf at AutoZone. That's almost as much as I paid for the car! Well, I
exaggerate...Or, I could have used Bosch, AC-Delco, Autolite or (UGH!)
Champion...No Thanks.

The wires were $57 for NGK Aftermarket. $85 with a discount from a Toyota
dealer, or $117 retail.

The Valve cover gaskets, intake gasket, cap and rotor, from Toyota, were
$54, for a grand total of $165. Can you imagine what I would have paid a
dealer just for parts?

Then, there's removing the intake to get to the plugs, removing the valve
covers, removing the plugs, checking and replacing everything. I bet this
would have been >$400 to have a dealer do this!

"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno.TakeThisOut@AE86.gts> wrote in message
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> And I'm doing the tune up myself! Now, I get my parts at wholesale, so I
> can't even imagine what dealer prices are!
>
> The only plugs I can get for my Supra are $9 each, a total of 6. That's
> $54, just for plugs. The price was the same everywhere, but the dealer
> can't get them 'til Tuesday (Hey, that'd be a good name for a band!)
> OK, I lie. I could have used NGK Copper for <$2 each, and then had to do
> it every 20-30,000 miles. NO THANKS! Iridium plugs are $12 and were on the
> shelf at AutoZone. That's almost as much as I paid for the car! Well, I
> exaggerate...Or, I could have used Bosch, AC-Delco, Autolite or (UGH!)
> Champion...No Thanks.
>
> The wires were $57 for NGK Aftermarket. $85 with a discount from a Toyota
> dealer, or $117 retail.
>
> The Valve cover gaskets, intake gasket, cap and rotor, from Toyota, were
> $54, for a grand total of $165. Can you imagine what I would have paid a
> dealer just for parts?
>
> Then, there's removing the intake to get to the plugs, removing the valve
> covers, removing the plugs, checking and replacing everything. I bet this
> would have been >$400 to have a dealer do this!

Out of curiosity, why are you removing the intake manifold to do a tune up?
Was it leaking at the gasket?
I never had to strip off the intake to do a tune on my Cressida, worst case
was to remove the throttle body to pull off the rocker covers to check the
cams.
Everything else is out in the open and should easy to get to.