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Old 03-05-2008, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by mpolli View Post
Do you ever do any of your own work? Do you have any desire to check these things out yourself? These things you can inspect yourself. Then you can tell what the situation really is. That is a lot of money just for cracked boots. You are correct in your description of the drag link, aka center link aka tie rod assembly. Those prices all look about 30% high.
Well, I had them do the other work that I had it in for (rear O2 sensor above the cat, and a couple of other items I couldn't do). I'm going to change the steering damper myself and take the time while under there to inspect the items that they've mentioned.

Frankly, I need new tires so I'm going to get those before I have the front end work done anyway so I don't need 2 alignments.

I thought that the labor on the control arm bushings and drag link looked about 2 hours too high on each job.
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