Spark plugs change on 4th gen V6

On the passenger side, I never unhooked the coils, driver's side, definitely needed that. First time on my truck, the NGKs where under there.
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2007 SE V6 Titanium
 
Here I went with Autolite Iridium XP5325. My reasoning is quality gap is surely narrowing; price point, Advanced Auto had 20% off online/store pick-up coupon; 0.6mm center electrode, some research revealed 4mm can wear faster, while performance of larger 5 or 6mm center electrode is not much different; platinum sidewire, seems others except NGK didn't have platinum sidewire. No check engine light yet, but time will tell if my savings pays off.

The old plugs were NGK R LFR6C, 4 gaps were .043 to .045, one gap was slightly larger and one slightly smaller, but they all looked normal at a glance. Probably didn't need changing except for the too narrow, glad I caught that. 2005 V6 with 295k.

An aside, before I knew better, I put Bosch Iridium's in my 2005 Camry 4cyl, 10k on them and no problems yet.
 
Replaced Spark Plug

Just replaced my spark plugs on 2007 V6. Passenger side was easier than driver side, but still not too bad. I did remove the top bolt and loosen the bottom bolt on the bracket cover the drive side so I could rotate it out of the way.

Make sure you have at least a 12 in extension but I even attached another extension on that to make it longer, and used electrical tape around the spark plug socket so it wouldn't slip off.

The ones I took out weren't bad, but looks like the previous owner didn't gap them. I gapped mine to the owner's manual specification of 0.43mm.
 
Looking at the Toyota maintenance schedule online I noticed that for this engine Toyota requires that the spark plugs are changed at 60K (bought it certified preowned at 34K, so I don't know if it was done at 30K).
Required by the terms of the Emission Control Warranty.

Well I'm at 65K, didn't change'em at 60K. Dealer serviced (oil changes at ~5K intervals). Didn't know and the dealer didn't bother to tell me (offered other nonsense though).
The car runs fine and I can't detect any signs that the spark plugs actually need change.
So, did I void my "Emission Control Warranty"?

The truck may run fine but the plugs are not gapped anymore at .043 at 60k.

I too was pushing 60k with some NGK 7787, but will swap out at 30k from here on out. The gap had eroded to .05+ on all of the old plugs.

The Coil on plugs and connectors are in great shape at 145k.

NGK 7787's are good, maybe not the best but solid in my book.
 

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