Hello,

How much does it cost to get a Tune Up?

Also...plugs and a fuel filter?

Brian

 

look in the yellow pages under auto repair or auto parts and call places in your area, prices vary a lot from place to place.

 

I would suggest getting someone AC dELCO certified if I were you that way you know they have manuals and **** on our cars, and they know what they are doing. A friend of mine went to a place and the guy who did his had just moved form a HONDA deler and nearly blew up his motor.

 

For what you'll spend for someone else to "tune up" your engine, you can probably buy all the supplies you need, the tools you'll need, do a better, more thorough job, and leanr a couple of things about your car along the way.

Obviously, I'm a staunch advocate of "hands-on" ownership, since it always has benefits that cannot have a price placed upon them.

 

If the eng is running good, I would avoid the tune-up shops.
I used to work in one abt 12 years ago.
If we had a car come in that seemed to be running good and the customer had no complaints, we would replace the plugs, give the eng a visual insp, and charge them $49.95..
A fuel filter replacement was abt $30 if I remember correctly.

 

I think the prices have gone up. hehe.. I've seen most places say closer to $100, depending on the engine... and most places aren't going to advertise their highest price, so that's probably for a 4 cyl engine.. hehe.. I've seen fuel filter replacement for anywhere from $30 to $60 .. either way, I'd say neither is worth the money.

also, a "tune up" can technically be defined by just about any regular maintenance part replacement.. to me, a full tune up would be, cap, rotor, wires, plugs, fuel filter, air filter, breather, pcv.. might be forgetting a small thing or two.. but you shouldn't need to spend more than $100 (rough estimate) for all those parts .. if you were to get all that done somwhere, you'd probably be looking at $300-400.