{"id":558,"date":"2010-05-25T06:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2010-05-25T06:49:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:49:59","slug":"new-spark-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"New Spark Plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the automechanical prowess over at <a href=\"http:\/\/dbmini.us\/my-first-3\/\">dbmini<\/a> I finally got around to changing my spark plugs at the weekend. I&#8217;d purchased them over a month ago but had never gotten round to buying the wrench and appropriate socket attachments. I&#8217;m a software guy, not many tools in my house.<\/p>\n<p>The task was no less easy then db said it would be though I had changed spark plugs before, back in my old Mini Metro in the 80&#8217;s. Only one of the plugs gave some resistance, and I worried about trying too hard to get it loose and breaking it in the socket. Don&#8217;t know how I would get it out if I did that!<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t have taken more than 10 minutes for the whole thing, though I did scuff up some fingers: there was blood. Whole thing cost me $40 for the plugs and $35 for the toolkit plus tax and all. The garage that does my oil changes quoted me $260 so I saved me a chunk of change. So much so, that I bought some new leads to pretty it up under the bonnet.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3357\/4638571501_725b325eb5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not sure there is any more DIY in my future. I wouldn&#8217;t mind having a go at the brake pads since everyone tells me that&#8217;s so easy but, again, no tools or anything so might as well just take it to someone who does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the automechanical prowess over at dbmini I finally got around to changing my spark plugs at the weekend. I&#8217;d purchased them over a month ago but had never gotten round to buying the wrench and appropriate socket attachments. I&#8217;m a software guy, not many tools in my house. The task was no less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=558\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Spark Plugs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}