Ok, it was $693.54 for the following:

2 brake pads
rear right brake rotor
rear right caliper
brake fluid
right front lower ball joint

All with labor and such. I was getting a constant squeak from my rear right wheel until I came to a complete stop. Took it to Tuffy, and here's what I got. Just wondering if they screwed me or not.

 

You already paid for it so it doesn't matter.

 

Lol being as you already paid for it, you definately don't want to hear the answer to your question.

 

Sounds like about $200 in parts...so $500 for labor? A little high. It's about 3 hours labor, being conservative.

 

that sounds like a friday afternoon garage job. so yes

 

Yeah you got ripped. you could have bought 2 control arms with new bushings and balljoints for about 130 bones too.

 

You did get owned indeed. I work at AZ. All those parts alone as stated by deezo should have ran you roughly 190 before tax.

 

Ya feel that?

oh yeah

should feel abut the same

because you got ripped.

 

yea thats rough man should have just bought a civic hatch with high miles and called it a day.

 

why didn't you do more research? you should have done it yourself. i know i would.

 

If your asking us, than you must have asked yourself this question. You must have had 2nd thoughts sometime during this whole thing. If you feel you got ripped than you got ripped. This is why I don't trust anyone than my Brother, My Dad, and myself to work on my cars.

 

700 bucks!!! damn man they f'd you up!!

 

def next time do the research it helps all the time

 

You could of done the brakes easily yourself.

 

What a weird question, eh? Maybe the poster wants empathy, but the way he wrote it he seemed to want abuse.

We all get jacked every day. Heck, my utility bill hit $280/mo. this year, and it was warm. In 2k3, when it was really cold, it was about $170. So I got jacked, and so did anyone else who uses natural gas.

ExxonMobil #1 baby, they did nearly $1 billion in sales PER DAY in 2k5. I got 2 $50 ExxonMobil gas cards in my wallet, so I'm doubly jacked! The only entity richer than them is China, man, 853.7 BILLION $ (US) of foreign cash reserves. No wonder they can build the world's most expensive building in Beijing, and they can't even move on rebuilding the World Trade. It's a new world, and I got that all from this post! hehe

 

you didnt get screwed, thats how much shops usually charge if you want them to install it for you, labor isnt cheap

 

sad but true

 

What about $500.00 for new water pump and chain tensioner at the same time? Is that a good deal?

 

Yes. Very fair.

 

Most of that $500 was for labor, but its not exactly an easy job in the least. Very limited space.

I was quoted $1.2k for the same job.

 

Sorry to add salt to the fresh wound but you did get ripped off. For that kind of money, you could have gotten yourself a good exhaust system and headers. Even a clutch job that requires alot more labor than yours wouldn't come close to what you paid for labor. The only difficult part of your repair was replacing the lower ball joint still shouldn't cost that much.

If you must rely on someone else to fix your car, at least shop around first. BTW, going to 2 or 3 different shops isn't exactly called shopping around.

 

which exhaust and headers for ~$700

 

Typo, it should have said EXHAUST OR HEADERS.

 

$694 bucks huh?

I take it you got all this done at the Nissan dealer? Either way all that should not have cost no more that $350.

Yeah bud you got Jacked.

 

J A C K E D U P ! next time call me and ill do it for 300 bucks or if you want you can pay me the 700 bucks.....

 

lol..i just saw almost 700 and your *** got learn how to workon your car or find some locals to help you out. OUCH

 

The thing that gets me, is that you post this AFTER.

Try to research the DIY difficulty and cost on here next time.

 

I just paid a tad under that today for my car ($690.74). They replaced the power steering pump return hose, front and back valve cover gaskets, o-rings for the sparkplug tubes (x6), intake plenum gasket, rack and pinion boots, alignment, all new valve cover washer-screw/gasket things (18 in all I believe), and a new PCV valve grommet. Everyting was OEM stuff except for the valve cover washers. The price included all the parts plus the install. I think for the amount of work they did on my car it was a fair price...

 

I can't stand people here who always tell people they got Jacked! Remember, if you are handy and can change these things out yourself good for you. If you are a regualr consumer going to a garage, then of course you have to pay labour charges. So what if garages charge say $80 an hour and you can do it for free.

In some cases, time is money or time is better spent with Family. Personally as the other guys says above, we all pay for stuff we can't do.

I.e. fixing computers may be easy for me but not for many people, I can't do electrical in my house but an electrician charges me lots of $$ for his trade.

So all in all, look at what is a fair price a shop would charge...not just Parts and free labour.

 

I paid about $890 for two new rear rotors, calipers, pads and had the front rotors turned. So I'd say no, you didn't get jacked.

 

i could buy a VQ35 for less than that.

 

He did ask if he got jacked or not! Read the thread topic. Tell us how we should have answered? I'm sure he got the answer to his question. And yes, many of us know that not everyone is a handyman which is why there are how-to's in this forum. The real problem is that almost everyone don't want to read, do their own research, and expect to be spoon-fed.

At least he's getting advices for next time.

 

You didn't get jacked. These other people here are showing off that their labor is free and that they have no clue about what things actually cost.

$200 in parts IF the mechanic was doing you a favor. Here's more what I would expect: (dealer price).

Rotor $40-80. ($92)
Caliper $75-250. ($335)
Pads $50. ($50)
Ball Joint $40. ($50)

Dave

 

If you didn't go to the dealer you got jacked. If you did go to the dealer you got jacked.

 

You are a retard.

Dave

 

Exactly. Too late junior.

 

Hey theres a first time for everything, I'm sure most of the folk in this forum got jacked one time or another, **** happens.

 

Does your car glow as well?

 

Some very valid points. Sometimes I say to myself, I just changed my own brakes for about $45 plus $15 for the hardware kit, and being overly careful it took about 1 hour. A shop woulda definitely told me I need rotors and calipers based on my mileage, and I coulda gotten burned out of $500+. Good for me, I did it myself. Another guy in the office pays the $500, doesn't get his hands dirty, and simply bills a client another 2 hours @ $1000, or he pads his expense report next time he goes to Shanghai. Who got jacked, me or the other partner? Many people could care less about DIY, and they're entitled. Sometimes we need to keep things in perspective, so I agree with your reply.

 

You're a very odd person sir.



The guy got owned, but we all learned this lesson one time or another...especially when we were noobs at one point.