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YOUR RESEARCHTurbo Spark plug service ????
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Plug changes are more expensive on the 996TT's and GT2's purely because there is more labour involved as the intercoolers have to be removed to access the plugs.
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£500 TO CHANGE THE PLUGS ON THE 24,000 MILE SERVICE
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The price just to change the plugs is listed as £161 for a C2, £269 for a GT3, £456 for a TT or GT2.
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Plug changes are more expensive on the 996TT's and GT2's purely because there is more labour involved as the intercoolers have to be removed to access the plugs.
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Replacement of plugs is incorporated into the OPC service schedule.
Major service for TT and GT2 is £1038.00 inc spark plug change
Migration info. Legacy thread was 125394
Platinum core plugs and certainly with the older turbos, it is "easier" to drop the engine than work from above. The intercooler etc has to be removed on the 930 drive chain to get to the block. Not sure about the subsequent models but to be honest, it strikes me that everything after the 3.2 looks fairly difficult to work on.
Migration info. Legacy thread was 125541
Had the plugs changed 15 months ago at 24,000 miles (they'll be due again in 4 months time).
Major service at OPC came to around £1100 on mine (but I had a couple of minor extra things, so the figure of £1038 above sounds about right).
The spark plugs were £5.36 +VAT each (15 months ago).
So the plugs themselves are not expensive.
The engine does not need to be moved to change them (unlike some older cars), although they cost almost twice the price to change as the GT3, so the turbo plumbing does not help.
The price just to change the plugs is listed as £161 for a C2, £269 for a GT3, £456 for a TT or GT2.
Major service for a TT is listed at £538, minor at £342.
At the next service (48K), I'll get hit for an extra £75 for the fuel filter and £61 for the drive belt, on top of the £1038. I'm expecting £1200.
Migration info. Legacy thread was 125559
Plug changes are more expensive on the 996TT's and GT2's purely because there is more labour involved as the intercoolers have to be removed to access the plugs. However only an OPC could justify several hundred pounds more for undoing a few extra nuts :roll:
Migration info. Legacy thread was 125588
I have been looking into this recently and I think OPC must just charge the additional labour (to undo a few more nuts as Dave says) because they can.
I have just phoned Strasse in Leeds and they said a full major service on a TT is £545 all in, including the spark plugs. Only thing it does not include is the aux drive belt which is another £105 on top.
Any thoughts???
Migration info. Legacy thread was 125641
Just speaking with my friends at Zentrum Nottingham they reckon about £250-£300 for 6 plugs incl labour and confirmed 4 of them are easy to get at and two are difficult, hence the extra labout at about 4 hours..
Migration info. Legacy thread was 126279
I also spoke to Martin at Zentrum.
He suggested that a full service (48,000 mile) on the TT would come in at £757. This includes fuel filter, and the poly-rib belt.
Just to confirm the plugs are only done on the 48,000 mile major service and not on the 24,000 mile major service.
Migration info. Legacy thread was 126283
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