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I appreciate the link for the Bosch coils and did you use these for your Bird? I am having the plugs replaced today as a part of general safe keeping. My bird is running fine and has 100,000 miles only one coil replaced under warranty around 40,000 miles. Ford dealer mechanic suggested doing just the plugs at first since the car is running fine. Coils through Ford $600.00 installed with plugs $900.00 was suggested as well to be preventative going forward. I have decided to just replace the plugs and see how that goes since the current coils are running fine. Hope just replacing the plugs work, but if not I will look to purchase a coil set of 8 and replace all with a new set of plugs as well. Curious about the Bosch coils in the link or other options....Thanks for your reply!
If you are changing the plugs yourself, I would also replace the coils at the rear of the engine while you are at it. The ones up front are easy to get at so not a problem if the front coils go bad later.I appreciate the link for the Bosch coils and did you use these for your Bird? I am having the plugs replaced today as a part of general safe keeping. My bird is running fine and has 100,000 miles only one coil replaced under warranty around 40,000 miles. Ford dealer mechanic suggested doing just the plugs at first since the car is running fine. Coils through Ford $600.00 installed with plugs $900.00 was suggested as well to be preventative going forward. I have decided to just replace the plugs and see how that goes since the current coils are running fine. Hope just replacing the plugs work, but if not I will look to purchase a coil set of 8 and replace all with a new set of plugs as well. Curious about the Bosch coils in the link or other options....Thanks for your reply!
I posted a long description of what I had to do to my 2002 TBird short story is I found replacing the plugs as well as the coils all together is the best thing, I also had valve cover gaskets leaking (another popular thing with these cars, the originals are crap) so pull the plugs out and check to see if they have any oil on them, if so that's the reason its all going wrong. I put Bosch iridium plugs in and got a full set of coils off a company that sells aftermarket ones for $65 total. Over two years later and its running fine still. The coil going made it feel lacking in power slightly and a slight hiccup, also you can hear a slight popping/puffing from the exhaust as it does so.
The trunk release behind the seat is a precaution in case your battery dies as that is in there, you use the key to open it, good idea actually.
Seriously just bought a compete set for my new car and had one die again on the way home. The new ones are going in this weekend. Looks like a easy swap.