I want to start my season with a new set of plugs and have a couple questions.

1. Is there a better place to buy new plugs than the dealer. Has to be.

2. It looks like a couple plugs are almost unreachable without taking off
some hoses?

3. Never fooled with COP before, looks like you just unplug the coil wire
and pop the coil cap off to reach the spark plug?

4. Sure not as friendly as the Gen 1.

rick rash

why would you need plugs? Use the money for gas

from NGK- Service life of some OEM Iridium spark plugs can be as much as 120000 miles with very little degrading of performance in that lifespan.

Well, I do change them on my truck and car every 100,000 miles. I guess you are right. I change the Gen 1 stock plugs every Spring.

rick

ya im glad they put the good plugs in the new max cuz they do look like pain to change

They are a pain in the A$$..The tech @ Yamaha said to change them out every 8000 miles.. I didn't know how to do it so i had them do it..I do want to know how to the cap off of the plugs..

I think the tech is looking for work at his store, as they are supposed to do. Manual says 12,000, and that is even probably too soon unless you are having a problem.

wjzwiss wrote:


Hey WJ, I'm at around 5k miles. Lets get together and have a "Spark Plug" party when the miles are right for both of us. And because I'm an unselfish kind of guy, we can change yours first.

I am at 3500, so at this rate I will be ready in 2012. See you then!

wjzwiss wrote:


That's what i was thinking as well.. But i'm about to hit 19000miles and he was going to do a map for the bike...I wanted new plugs..

wjzwiss wrote:


Sounds good to me. I can wait a few extra hundred miles over what you'll have, and two heads are better than one.