The local car shop in town just quoted me $260 to install new shocks struts and lowering springs. This seems pretty high for just labor or is it about right? Any comments are welcome.

 

I think that's fairly reasonable. Most shops charge about $50-60 per hour for labor, so that's about 5 hrs to do it. Not too far off, IMO.

 

that's a fair price I think, though I'd do the work myself....it's not really that difficult. I changed all of that stuff myself, it's not really difficult at all.

 

Hey Pontiac, buy some burgers and invite your friends to help you. Check out my site if you want to see whats involved. http://www.cardomain.com/id/88iroczguy

 

Well thanks for the replies. I think I will just invite a couple of my buddies over and see if we cant tackle it in an evening. THe only reason that I planned on taking it to a shop in the first place is because I read on the boards here that you need a front end alignment right after it's done. But I opnly live a mile from the shop anyways. Thanks again!

 

I only said it was a fair price. I never said "Have them do it for you."

With that said, after looking at Chris' site, you can also look at my rebuild page here:

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/taramille...tos.yahoo.com/


I'm not done yet, though. STILL waiting on those ES front coil spring isolators...I just put up some new pics of parts that are going in but I need to do some descriptions though. Gotta go fix the wife's Honda...starter just went out I think.

And for the record, "Do it yourself!!"

Ed