Posted by jimg.allentown on September 17, 2016 at 10:34:21 from (173.49.143.137):
In Reply to: Re: Machine shop prices? posted by jimg.allentown on September 17, 2016 at 05:15:24:
One of the folks that I advise and sometimes I do work for them came to me for some advice a few weeks ago. Seems that the wife went in to a chain store for a wheel alignment and o0il change. They came back to her and handed her an estimate for over $2100 to repair her daughter's car. They said it needed upper control arms and a left outer tie rod end. Seemed a bit high to me. She asked me if I would check it out. Turns out it really did need those parts. BUT, their prices were incredibly out of line. Here is the breakdown:
Control arms were $49 each with a lifetime free replacement warranty. Tie rod end was $29.00 with lifetime warranty. Job took me 6 hours. That included time to geo get the parts, time to sit in between operations, and just taking my own sweet time.
Now, that was RETAIL price for the parts. I can get commercial prices if I ask for them. So, the chain store had quoted $240 each for the control arms, $265 each for installation, $60 for the tie rod end, and $110 to install it. I can only call this one thing: robbery. I can understand that there needs to be some fair markup, and even at their $110 shop labor rate, the bill should have been UNDER $1000 and would still have made them a handsome level of profit.
I can see where an HONEST shop would be overwhelmed with work.
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