Tell me there not getting ripped off

£1000 bill for replacing all four dampers on a Lexus GS is a bargain IMO. I would expect it to be around £1500.
 
I had quotes of over £800 for shocks on my civic, so £1000 for a lexus isn't that unreasonable....
 
Dolph said:
I had quotes of over £800 for shocks on my civic, so £1000 for a lexus isn't that unreasonable....
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I was going to bring that up as I remember when you said it was going to cost £800 for a standard setup, didn't you go for the Koni setup in the end?
 
Ev0 said:
I was going to bring that up as I remember when you said it was going to cost £800 for a standard setup, didn't you go for the Koni setup in the end?
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Yeah, and saved myself a fair amount of cash in the process....

But that was as much because the place that supplied the new suspension got it all fitted and setup in about 2 hours as cheaper parts :)
 
[TW]Fox said:
Do you drive a Lexus GS300? Replacing the suspension on a car like that is not like fitting cheap Ripspeed lowernig springs to an Escort or something :)
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ripspeed bah! I'll buy my crappy springs off ebay thanks

although I was on about springs not shock absorbers, I wasn't thinking straight when I posted so didn't think that when he said shocks he meant shock absorbers :rolleyes: I was tired ok lol
 
You only have to look in the press these days to see how scandalous dealers labour prices are.which magazine have just done a survey and they found a BMW dealer charging £153 an hour !!! not bad eh.
 
I know the Toyota Soarer can come with self levelling suspension, if it was something like that then no wonder really.

A normal car would be about 50 to 100 a corner for dampers and my own car I can get a koni kit allround (spring, shocks & bumpstops) for 400, thats without fitting.

Most places I'd go for dampers wouldnt charge labour if you buy the parts from them but he shouldnt be using a dealer for a six year old car if he was bothered about money
 
muckymick said:
You only have to look in the press these days to see how scandalous dealers labour prices are.which magazine have just done a survey and they found a BMW dealer charging £153 an hour !!! not bad eh.
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where was that?
my 2 local bmw dealers (both rydale) quoted me £105 an hour labour
 
Good God you folks pay a lot for parts and labour!!

A high labour charge around here is $44.00 an hour from the dealer. And I'm sorry, but to pay $200US a corner for a MacPherson strut plus fitting it, the supplier would be told to sit on it and rotate!! A quicky altavista search. Please remember that that site is in US dollars. Divide the price by two to translate into British pounds.

I'm sorry, but you folks are getting ripped off!! I would have bought uprated struts and installed them myself, then taken it to the dealer for an alignment to finish the job off. Struts are just not that hard to do.
 
Mickey_D said:
A high labour charge around here is $44.00 an hour from the dealer. And I'm sorry, but to pay $200US a corner for a MacPherson strut plus fitting it, the supplier would be told to sit on it and rotate!!
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There was an article about this on the radio the other day. In some parts of the UK dealers are charging upto £220 an hour labour and in most cases mechanics charge more than lawyers.

You'll pay a lot less going to an independent, but you can't guarantee the service. When I was getting a knocking noice from my left rear suspension I took it to my local indy and he told me that the jack was loose in the boot and that was causing the noise?!? Mine, at least he was good enough to tell me he'd never looked at an S60 before I was really wasn't expecting anything else.
 
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