Just found out some mis-firing is occuring and that i should get a tune up...i'm just quite curious of what i'm going to be paying for one. I know its kinda vague considering what could be wrong, but in general what kind of prices i'm looking at, either from a Honda dealership or just a regular mechanic.

 

OEM Platinum plugs run around $96 for 4. Missfiring can be caused by any number of things, many of them more costly then spark plugs. I wouldn't get your hopes up that plugs are going to fix the problem.

There have been plenty of cars with bent valves, bad injectors, coils, PCM's.

 

Modern day cars don't really need "tune ups" anymore. If you're getting a misfire (and how do you know this?), you're looking at a diagnosis and a "fix", not a tune up. (Unless of course, you've got over 100,000 miles on the car.)

 

well, my CEL came on, and i just happened to be near an autozone. So i did their diagnostic thing and it told me that my 2,3,4 cylinders were missfiring. I just got the car and have been driving it for the past week. Everything has seemed fine until the light came on and it freaked me out. From driving it though, i can't feel any difference in performance or anything like that.

 

You might try the easy approach first, assuming that you don't ever get a "flashing" CEL. Go with new plugs, swap the coil packs around, try some injector cleaner and see how it goes after that.
The very worst it can be it a bad ECU.

 

any tips on where to buy the proper parts for the s2000 (such as platinum plugs, if the S depends on those) other than maybe honda and any relative price info you may think of...roughs prices would suffice.

sorry i'm a newb

and thanks for the advice

 

Have a look here:
http://www.sparkplugs.com/

You can get platinum or Iridium plugs.

 

Do a compression check first thing. Rule out a bad valve or cylinder.

 

thanks for the help guys.....hopefully i find out soon whats wrong...and pray its something minor like plugs