Just bought a set of wires from Advance auto parts and they look nothing like the wires that are currently in there. Not even sure of they will hook up. Anyone ever had this problem before? 08 R56S
Those are 1st Gen plug wires. You say you have an 08 R56S. Those are not going to work. The R56 has a coil on each plug and looks like this.
:cornut: No they are wrong. Those are for the Pentagon/Tritec R50/52/53 engine. Correct wires for an R56 N14 Prince engine(which you have) have the coil incorporated into the wire and cost Ball Park $600. a set. Not a whole lot of those sold due to expense . Jason
And this is the reason I do not shop at auto part chain stores because this always happens to me. Anyways...Will they let you return them? Stock coils are around $60 ea. How many miles do you have on your R56s?
If you do want to replace all four of the coilpacks, I can get you a set of 4 Facet brand coilpacks for 127.48 + 10 bucks shipping to you or 4 OEM MINI for 159.34 + 10 bucks shipping to you. Email me if you'd like to go this route! [email protected]
Sounds like ima be returning them. Hopefully they'll let me. I only have 72k miles on it. The important part is the plugs which will be done soon as the plug socket comes in. Thanks for the info guys. Guess Advance isn't always right lol
Hey Dan, Are the Facet a high performance coils? I changed the plugs at 50K because it was recommended by the dealer to replace them. Bought NGKs and the 12 point socket. Took me 10 minutes to replace.
Not sure if they've ever been changed but I bought NKGs and only reason was it was missing intermittently as I gave it gas. Figured I would start with the smallest easiest thing first.
The fact the tri-tec motor was sold in the 07 and 08 r52 (cabrio) is what causes all the confusion.....
Nope, they an off brand that I can get for you if you wanted to save some cash. I would however recommend replacing something as important as ignition coils with OEM parts.
+1 for going with oem.... Just had an replacement aftermarket coil on a highlander go bad...1 st time about 15,000...then about 5000 later the replacement for the replacement went bad....think it was $10 more to get the oem...would likely have saved me some grief!! Knda ironic, sine the oem denso's that are left all have 200,000+ miles, and still work great.