What milage should the plugs be replaced at?

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What milage should the plugs be replaced at?

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As title says, mines done 21k with no probs.
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Inspection 2 service
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Thanks :| But I did ask milage.
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Modern plugs, run on unleaded fiel, will last for about 60,000 miles. This is, for example, the plug change periodicity for a lot of modern VW cars.
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Re: Mileage

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Mike Fishwick wrote:Modern plugs, run on unleaded fiel, will last for about 60,000 miles. This is, for example, the plug change periodicity for a lot of modern VW cars.
Cheers Mike, should last another year then :lol:
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Well the BMW handbook doesn't say mileage - it says Insp II for everything bar the M44 1.9, which is both Insp I and Insp II. I reckon about 8-9k miles between services on mine, alternating between Oil Service and Inspection - the later cars have slightly longer service intervals, so lets call them 10k miles, so every four services on yours would be 40k miles or thereabouts.

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Yes - that would suit cars which are not used very much, and do a lot of miles when not really hot - typical enthusiast cars!

In more normal use with longer runs - say 15,000 between services would equate to 60,000 for an Inspection 2.

A set of plugs is about the only difference between an Insp 1 and an Insp 2, but the price asked for the Insp 2 is a lot higher . . . ever had the feeling that you have been seen off in your quest for a rubber stamp collection in the service book?
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