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this is not the forum for argumentative responses!
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!! 1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere! |
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As a customer, "fair" would be 2 hours labor and a 20% mark-up on parts. As a shop owner, "fair" appears to be 4 hours labor and a 100% mark-up on parts. Quote:
I guess it all depends on how you define "fair" and from who's prospective. As a "shade tree mechanic", using decent quality parts, I could do that job for $400 parts(retail) and 3-4 hrs labor.
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We always save the old parts for "show and tell", and every car gets one or two test drives depending on what it was here for. As for the op, the price sounds a little high. I suspect that flex hoses,rotors and pads are being done at the same time and some regions have pretty high labor rates as well. The last youngtimer we worked on('81 240D) needed all 20 of the rotor to hub bolts because someone had buggered them all up with an impact. It takes longer, but we use thee lug nuts and clamp the hub to a vise and use a torque wrench. The same car had egg shaped outer wheel bearings because they had been dropped on the floor at some point. That's why we simply don't just throw calipers on and bleed the brakes like one poster suggested should take .5 hours per side. The liability is too great, and we don't do hack repairs by replacing calipers only. We inspect the entire brake system and make up an estimate based on what it takes to bring the entire brake system up to par. Don't get me started on the phenolic caliper pistons used on domestics, I won't replace pads without doing calipers on those.
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he might have 4 seized pistons, and blown flex lines, and gouged rotors, and etc etc.
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!! 1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere! |
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One thing we do on all reman calipers we install is to crack the bleeder screws BEFORE we put them on the car. For some reason, rebuilders use no packing materials in the oversize boxes and many times the bleeder screw is fractured.
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most of mine come to me with the bleeders in a bag...
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!! 1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere! |
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