i went to a local don olson today and they said they would charge $575 just to put on the 4 sprint springs i have being sent to me in the mail!!!!! this cant be right. im not sure where else to go it seems most places dont do "installs" only if you bought the product from them......any suggestions?

this also included alignment etc.. but it still seems very expensive

 

you should have punched whoever gave you that bogus *** price right in the mouth....I'm down here in Port saint lucie and an import garage quoted me $200 for spring and strut installation and I'm starting to think that's kind of high and I'm still shopping around... you can use that as a reference if you want.

 

im starting to think that whatever they are smoking over there at don olsons must be some gooooood sheeeeet

 

thats ridiculous thats like when this one shop tried to get me for $300+ just to put on and paint my Stillen front lip, JUST THE FRONT LIP!!!! anyways like Prime said should run you about $200 maybe $300(I was quoted that for spring and shock install) I was looking at the repair manual last night and the spring replacement procedure looks very straight forward, but I'm not really sure if I wanna do it myself when I get mine this summer, but I might give it a try!

 

these Brazillian guys who didnt speak english did it for $160 at their shop .......just go to an immigrant's shop....and they will always do it

 

vision kru and maxse91 what type of struts do you have?

 

As I recall from Orlando there are plenty of rice shops around there, and plenty of riced cars to go with them. Go to one of those shops and ask if they'll do it or if they have a place they recommend. It'll probably be a bit more reasonable than that quote... that's just crazy.

 

install should only be like 45-50 bucks per corner so figure 180 - 200...

 

don't go to a performance shop, because they'll over-charge you. they know you have enough money to customize your car, so they'll up the price. just go to a random mechanic or go to so commercialized place that just replaces stock stuff o normal cars. i can't think of names but, like if you had a cat-back system you wanted installed, i'd go to midas or a place like that, they have cheap prices and do decent jobs.

 

block..........i have stock struts im gonna see how they work out

as far as the install, i have no idea where im going to go , i actually dont know of anythign close to UCF to do this im going to end up driving down the road and just stoppng at any place i think might do it and get some quotes, anything like 150-250 sounds reasonable

 

for spending 200 dollars and having it installed... its not that involved on th e4th gen...so im sure the 3rd gen isnt that bad..... also sweet looking car.... its real clean ... reminds me alot of my old car...check out my homepage (im too lazy to put the new car on there)

 

well i guess i wouldnet mind trying it myself and then just getting it balanced and aligned somewhere else, but since i am up at college i dont have the tools time or space so its kind of hard, im going to see what i can find today and if anyone has a reasonable price

 

Did mines myself this past weekend. Was pretty easy actually. As far as tools like a spring compressor, a local PepBoys will have loaner tools. Look into it, its pretty easy.