Originally Posted By: Vikas
Now let me ask you the question. Why do you think it was worth letting dealer do this? Even if you had those "bad" type of plugs, if something were to do go wrong, you would have been on the hook to fork the added cost of extraction/thread repairs etc. Ford dealer don't just say "oops it broke, we will fix it for you free!". They already make you sign that you will pay $xxx for each plug that breaks while taking out.
Don't take this wrong way, I let my mechanic change the oil in my cars, so I don't have any moral right to question your decision. The two spark plug changes done on my vehicles were done gratis by by mechanic as a part of some other job he was doing on those vehicles. I had just kept a brand new OEM spark plug set (purchased from Amazon) on the passenger seat.
To directly answer your question, I did not have the time, I did not have the correct tools, and other than minor maintenance, I quit working on cars years ago. I have more important things to spend my time on than to fight with something like a spark plug change on a vehicle like this one. For $275 (the parts would have to be purchased no matter what), it was totally worth it to me not to have to mess with it (bad plugs or not). I have a good dealer and they have never "jacked me around" and I feel confident they know what they are doing. Some guys like working on cars, but I left that behind when I was in my twenties, perhaps it was because I was broke and the cars I could afford back then required constant repairs and I became burned out on it. For me, those days are long gone...but working on my ATVs is another story