Sorry, I did not mean to imply that anyone was engaged in malfeasance fior charging $363 (even in Canadian Loonies) for a plug job.

I mistakenly thought that this was about a 12-cylinder motor, rather than a six with two plugs per cylinder. I once owned a Nissan with eight plugs for four cylinders. I seem to have managed to change the plugs in that car with little difficulty.

All I said was that I tend to think I would attempt to do the job myself, as I prefer to keep my money and learn something useful. I get a buzz out of working on my own car.

I also ventured the opinion that changing plugs is not such a high-tech job that it would require the most highly trained professionals. I do recognize that experience at doing any sort of mechanical job enables anyone to learn how to do a better job in less time.

As a College professor, I would not get upset if they hired someone else to erase the chalkboards, even though I really am highly competent at it. I realize that my skills can be better used on more challenging endeavors.

So please do not think I am trying to offend you or anyone. I certainly did not mean to imply any such thing.

If the car were mine, I would own a shop manual and find out as much as I could before doing a plug job. The tool for removing sparkplugs is quite useful and I still have one, though I don't think it was made by Snap-On.

I was responsing to the comment that Goodyear was an inappropriate place to take a car for a plug change, perhaps because the fellow who mentioned this seemed unaware that Goodyear operates shops where such basic maintainance is done. I am sure that some of these might have a mechanic entirely capable of doing a competent plug job.

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