If you bought just the parts online at a place like Majestic, they'd run (assume
a 1991 Civic LX, 4 cylinder):

$17 rotor & cap
$35 wires
$7 plugs
$10 air filter
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$69
Add on about $10 for shipping for a total discounted parts price of about $79.

See http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/...catdisplay.jsp for the
specific prices for your car. Note the time it takes just locating the parts.
;-)

Two hours labor seems high but may very well be the Honda factory manual labor
rate.

For someone who has never done this before and is careful, yes, two hours is
reasonable. For someone more experienced, I would put the labor at about an
hour, assuming nothing like, say, a stuck spark plug occurs.

If you use the retail prices for the above parts, tack on about 33% more for the
price.

I think $175 is not a major ripoff, especially if this is a dealer doing the
work. In theory, dealer techs. have specific experience with Hondas, and this is
worth something. Not all the time, but sometimes.


"jbourgeois" > wrote
> I received a $175 estimate for a major tune-up, including replacement of
> spark plugs, wires, rotors, distributor cap, and air filter. There is a
> $45/hr labor fee, and an estimated time of 2 hrs.
>
> Is this too much? It sounds like too much time...