30K Service??? How Important?

Yep, that was on my 811.00 bill.

 

If you do the work yourself, and especially if you have an extended warranty, I suggest you document recommended service milestones and keep your receipts.

 

My sales guy said the same thing.....change the spark plugs at 100K.....and for me I'll never reach a 100K.....at most 5K-6K a year!!!

 

My 2004 6-cyl had Iridium or platinum plugs. Are you saying that the 2008's went back to cheap copper plugs??

 

Can you upgrade to the iridiums so that after the 30k your good to 130k?

 

actually.....05 and up went back to copper plugs in the v6. i still dont understand why they did it though.......i figure more or less saving money that way for them.

 

yup, and alot of people have done so. i went with the standard coppers though, mainly because of price per plug, plus i really dont mind changing them every 30k, although.....i may go with the iridiums at 60k anyway.

 

I talked to my service tech today about teh copper vs iridiums.
he said in the 05+ he would not reccomend going to the iridiums.

The reason he gave was the truck was not meant to run and them and the trucks he has done with them have came back in pinging.

Just due to this i may go with the coppers. If OEM is copped i figure there may be a reason since the technology was already availble and they had used it before.

 

just my opinion, but i think he's just blowing smoke man. the higher compression on the 4.0v6 tacomas has a bit to do with that there. the pinging he is talking about is more than likely due to cheaper gas.......not the plugs. iridiums supposedly spark a little better than the coppers, so i highly doubt what he says about pinging being caused by plugs.

on the other side.....the coppers are cheaper. relatively easy to change in the v6 too, so go with them. cant go wrong either way, imo.

 

me too man!!

 

So at 30K miles if I change to Iridiums, I can let them go for 100k miles? Anyone know the part number for Iridiums for a 2008??

 

hey guy on the Rear Diff... Since i have the Sport - not Off Road
I do have a LSD correct?
Do i need to do my rear diff at 30K? The manual says with LSD.
So I assume just the SPORTS need it changed at 30K not the Off Roads because they have a Locking rear diff.

Am i reading this right???