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well, a tune-up these days isnt like the old days...they used to do cap and rotor, and plugs and plugwires.....but plugwires can be expensive these days...at my dealer they just check out the electrical system, perform a eec test, checking for codes, they check the plug wires if any need to be replaced, they replace the spark plugs, and air filter. I would recommend at least removing the spark plugs and maybe putting a bit of antisieze on them, you can do this yourself if you wish. The only reason I recommend this is because with todays aluminum heads the plugs can sieze in the head and pull the threads of the head out with them, if you leave them in there too long.

yea, really they recommend a timing belt on them at 100,000kms...but personally, seeing that it is a freewheeling engine, I would probably hold out a little longer...my focus when to 140,000kms with the original timing belt, and it still looked like it was in pretty good shape at that point. i havnt seen any customers with a broken timing belt on a focus yet...but I have seen quite a few on ford escorts with high kms.