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The previous owner of my Insight took it in to the dealership for EVERY SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE. Normally, I'd think this is a fairly good, if not expensive, practice.

I was tooling around under the hood today and discovered that when the spark plugs had been replaced at 115k mi (per the book), the dealership that serviced it took the liberty of installing all "A" type spark plugs in an all "B" type head.

It's not that complicated people. It's like the square peg and the round hole.

A != B

Now I'm gonna be out $45 getting new plugs to get it back to rights again.

Just a friendly reminder to check up on the work your stealership does.

Ahh, I get to have the pleasure of going in for 60k maintenance soon. Looks like they go a lot more than what is recommended in the book.

Hi Shifty35:

___I can almost bet the tech read about or knew about the indexing on the Insight too. WTF :(

___If it’s any consolation, you should pick up some FE after that swap.

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Hi Shifty35:

___I can almost bet the tech read about or knew about the indexing on the Insight too. WTF :(

___If it’s any consolation, you should pick up some FE after that swap.

___Good Luck

___Wayne


I don't feel too bad considering I easily pull in the 80's and up in warmer temps.

This is with wrong plugs... bad EGR... bad clutch...

Something to look forward to when fixing I suppose.

Clutch will be in on Thursday, probably installed by Friday.

I'll be sure to take detailed pics of the whole operation.

That transmission is TINY.

I was ripped off big time at my local Dodge Dealer. Not gonna use him anymore!

You should have seen the workover the VW dealership did on my GF's Jetta TDI at the first Timing Belt. Cost many extra hours sourcing new bolts and such to replace parts THEY stripped/damaged.