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Old Nov 24, 2005 | 01:37 PM
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Spark Plugs??

I have a '03 5.4 with about 58,000 miles on it. The mechanic at the Ford dealership told me that the factory plugs should be good for 100,000 miles. To me that sounds like a lot of miles on the orignal set of plugs. Is this true or was he full of it?
 
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Old Nov 24, 2005 | 01:57 PM
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i have a 01 5.4 with 81000 i just had to change the plugs in it. and my grandfather had to change his at 61000 miles on his 01 5.4 i belive around 80000 would be about right time hope that helped u out
 
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Old Nov 24, 2005 | 04:46 PM
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my 2001 screw has 125,000 miles. i plan on doing the plugs next summer. yes-- the book says 100,000.
 
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Old Nov 25, 2005 | 09:33 PM
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the fac plugs is platnum good for 100,000 but we recomend 80,000 and it pays somewhere around 3.5 hours at my dealership i work at. also use platnum motorcrafts the ford modular engines don't like any thing else to good.
 
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