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Originally Posted by alamostation
In the last year, I had bad inner front tie-rod ends (yes, MR2s have rear tie rod ends) on my 1987 MR2. I priced three shops and they quoted me around $700 since they would spend 4 hours to remove the steering rack.
Napa sells a tool for $80 that will remove inner tie rod ends on Toyotas, and plenty of other cars, without removing the steering rack. I bought it and did the work in 20 minutes.
How much do you want to bet that the shops that quoted me four hours labor had that tool and were just looking to rip me off?
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I believe that you made your mistake by bringing your old quote to another shop, they will focus on beating labor prices, but without taking a good look at it, they wont see the solution. If the first shop quoted you a rack replacement, the other ones likely went off that estimate.
Standard inner tie rod removal is 1 hour per side, plus align (1 hour)
~Nate