Ford Quick Lane tune-up

A Ford Quick Lane shop quoted me $70 for a tune-up and $25 for a lube. Do those prices seem right? Are they likely to include parts and labor? Are they likely to do a good job? It's for a 2002 Ford Focus with between

140,000 and 150,000 miles on the odometer, which I bought used recently.
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Tom Y
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Since there is almost nothing you can do to "tune up" a car, if this is a 4 cylinder with easy to get to spark plugs, that sounds like a bargain. Be prepared for them to tell you it needs plug wires because of the mileage. The lube price sounds good too.

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Ashton Crusher

Tom, The shop that gave you the quote can tell you exactly what is and is not included.

The Focus came with an excellent manual that provides detailed service requirements.

Why do you want this service done? Is it because you just bought the car? Do you have its service history? If not, you might be needing new fluids and a timing belt far more than a tune-up.

They are likely to do exactly what you tell them reasonably well. They may not find other items that need to be done if you don't ask for an inspection, or they may find all sorts of things that _must_ be done urgently, if it is a slow day.

Dan

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Dan Beaton

snipped-for-privacy@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Dan Beaton) wrote in news:f1v7qu$a45$ snipped-for-privacy@theodyn.ncf.ca:

I've had it a few thousand miles. At first I used gasoline mostly from Thortons, and it worked fine. Then I started using gasoline from Sams Club. A few hundred or a thousand miles after I started using Sams gas, it started acting like it needs a tune up. This is from my experience with older cars in the past, which had similar symptoms when they needed tune ups, even though they didn't have fuel injectors etc. There was a time when I could get all tune-up symptoms fixed reliably by taking a car to a quck tune-up place, for $49.95. That was years ago, when most cars had older technology.

The first time this Focus started acting like it needed a tune up was in the middle of a 100 mile trip. I usually just drive it around town. Now it acts like that everywhere, but the symptoms are not yet severe.

The main symptom is that the engine jerks at random times. It's just one jerk at a time, not a general rough running. Sometimes several minutes or more will pass between jerks, and sometimes the jerks will happen in rapid succession. They happen more at cruising speed than when slower, but sometimes even happen in idle.

The secondary symptoms are lower gas mileage and less power.

Is the jerk probably caused by a cylinder not firing, just once? Or does it take more than that to make the engine jerk?

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Tom Y

This is slightly similar to a fuel pump failure, for which there was a type of recall. (More like an extended warranty.) Have all of the recall items been done on this car? Dan

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Dan Beaton

snipped-for-privacy@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Dan Beaton) wrote in news:f201jb$4cm$ snipped-for-privacy@theodyn.ncf.ca:

I don't know. How can I find out?

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Tom Y

I have a 2000 Mercury Sable 24 valve. It starts fine but when i am at a red light it stalls but starts right back up. Could someone please help and give some advice. Please email me at snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com

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slapshot5

Call a Ford dealer and ask. They will ask for your VIN and can tell you what has/hasn't been done.

Prices seem good and SHOULD include sparkplugs. They'll charge extra for air filter, PCV, etc if they decide they need replacing.

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Noozer

Ford maintains a database by VIN. I don't know if it can be accessed by the public, but any Ford dealer can check it. Dan

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Dan Beaton

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