How to Avoid Falling for Unnecessary Tuneup Specials

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Dave Erb from Dave's Ultimate Automotive in Austin and we're going to be talking about how to avoid falling for unnecessary tuneup specials. Everybody has seen them in the newspaper and fliers and value packs, you get a tuneup for thirty-nine ninety five or eighty-nine ninety five. I would say, how to avoid these specials, the reason we say avoid them is sometimes they're at places that are just trying to get in you the door so they can sale you a bunch of stuff you might not need and look at the fine print on what these tuneups are telling you. Basically, they're talking about screwing a set of spark plugs, they're probably not even the right spark plugs for that car and they're probably being screwed in by people who were flipping burgers last week and now are working on your car or learning how to work on your car and that's really not something you want. So, first of all understand what is a tuneup for your car, what kind of car do you have? If you can investigate that. Does it have a distributer cap, rotor, wires, spark plugs, a fuel filter, air filter, or is it distributor ignition? Does it just have spark plugs and coils on wires that don't normally need to be replaced? What intervals are you spark plugs supposed to be replaced at. Is it thirty thousand, is it sixty, a hundred and five, do you get platinum or double platinum plugs in your car? So, understanding more about what a tuneup, for you, would consist of, will help you to avoid these tuneup specials. Just be aware and also the reputation of the shop that you'd be going to get this tuneup special done. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is."