Assuming new injectors and full labor what is a reasonable amount to pay a shop for an injector install? This is NOT for me. My cousin owns a construction company and has one that needs new injectors bad. Has been quoted $3k by a respectable shop, but that seems high to me. What do you guys think?

 

Is this price including the injectors and labor?

Assuming new Alliants at roughly 200 a piece, that's 1600, and I would figure a shop, would try to account 6-8 hours installation, usually at around 100 an hour. It's close but IMO high, but that's coming from someone who doesn't like to pay for people to work on my truck, although I did just drop a lot on my trans...I feel that's different, considering warranty, rep, etc...

I wonder if your cousin supplied the injector, 212 a piece through Clay, what they would charge labor wise, that could be a good quote to get, IMO. I would say 1000 labor would be on the high end of fair.

 

That doesn't really sound too bad to me. If you figure they're likely around $300 each for the injectors, that leaves around $600 in labor to do the work, or about $75 labor per injector.

 

Bob, injecotrs are a breeze, depending on what he wants, new, stock, what ever it is. I feel that price is high, unless he is SURE he is going new. Here, I could have had stage 2's insatlled for 2200. 1600 for stage 1's ( I never asked about stock ), these were remans.

 

Ok, they are definitely brand new injectors. Stock. I told him $3k was not unreasonable considering he'll have the truck back by tomorrow evening.

 

I hope it is a respectable shop...but, how often do people really need to replace all the injectors? Unless he has an ungodly amount of miles on the truck, it's not likely at all. He might only need the 50 cent mod, or maybe new UVC harnesses and gaskets. Also, for that price, he better be sure that actually NEW injectors are going in, and not remanufactured ones.

I agree with the statements that it sounds high. Especially if they're not truly needed. They might be, though. I was quoted $1k to replace one injector by a "reputable shop" that they said "it is ALWAYS the #8 injector." Well, it was a $50 in-tank fix needed...not even anything under the hood. Of course, this "reputable shop" didn't know that, and I'm sure they'd have taken my money and the problem would have still been there. Not that they were knowingly wrong...I think they truly didn't know the problem, and were making a very bad assumption based on a simple code reader's printout.

 

So what is the difference between what you just said and what happens on internet forums when somebody is told to get a certain scan tool and then runs tests that mean NOTHING unless they know how to actually diagnose a problem? Doing it yourself usually equals a lot of frustration, down time, and money spent on replacing the #3 and #8 injectors while paying a shop to do the job and NOT paying for it if the problem still persists.

 

As my last post, I'll shed some light on the original question.

Without knowing the year of the truck....

94.5-97 is 4.2 hours for one on each side and then .2 hours for each additional. Do the math and it comes out to be 5.4 hours for all eight.

99-03 is 4.3 hours for one on each side and .2 for each additional. That's 5.5 hours.

Multiply that by the shop's per-hour rate and then add the cost of the parts.

 

BINGO! I think this is the most reasonable answer so far (along with BigAlsPSD's post too). Most shops I know of charge $80-100 per hour. So, if you can buy the parts yourself, you will save money on that, plus another $600 in labor. While it's all apart, you might as well get new glow plugs, gaskets, and wiring harnesses. Won't cost any more in labor, as they have to take the old ones off and reinstall anyway. Maybe add an extra hour for the glow plugs. But, for less than $3k, you should be able to get new injectors, glow plugs, UVCHs, and VC gaskets.

 

$3k damn! man i forgot how much labor is these days. i know this doesn't help, but i think i charged my buddy $100-150 bucks and a 12 pack to fix his "six point ouch"!

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Last time I checked, new at the dealer the injectors were $285.oo@ plus tax. Know way I was paying that.