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I had a 2005 F150. I paid almost $700 for a tune up. They broke 3 plugs.Look, I feel your pain, and if I were in that situation, I'd be screwed. As it is, I have a 2002 F150, the "Pineapple Lemon" of F150s. Last year I had to have a spark plug replaced.....A SPARK PLUG! Because of the way Ford designed the plug, no independent mechanic will touch the job. The plug was "designed" to break off in the motor without special tools and no one was willing to risk it. So, I took it to the Ford dealership. Cost me $400 to replace ONE spark plug......ONE! And they had the balls to tell me it may cost more if the plug broke while they were removing it. Yes, the mechanics that work for Ford, the company that designed the plug so that only Ford dealerships would attempt to replace it, will charge me EXTRA if the plug they designed to break.....breaks. Here I am a year later and I have yet another plug missing. I can only imagine that the cost has gone up in the past year and I'm looking at $500 at least to replace ONE plug. I no longer want to hear anything from anyone about the cost that big corporations absorb in order to bring an "affordable" product to market. Fork 'em.
At the same time I had a 2003 Jeep Liberty. I was able to do a tune up on my own in less than an hour for about $18.