Ball Joint replacement cost???
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Ball Joint replacement cost???
I just got back from a local repair shop about having the ball joints replaced. They quoted me a price of $80.99 each for upper ball joint and $123.23 each for lower ball joint. The labor was $480. The total bill with alignment was $958.39. That seemed to high, so when I got home I called the Ford garage and they wanted $57.98 each for upper and $86.90 each for lower. So I know for sure that the quote from the local shop wants to rip me off. What should I be looking to pay to have the job entirely done? the Ford garage seems like a deal compared to the other shop just based on parts alone.
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I just purchased a pair Moog (greasable) upper and lowers from one of the online vendors mentioned allot on this site. Without looking it up for you, I think it cost about 3-bills, and they were mailed to me. Just had em installed, along with a complete brake job (gave local garage all rotors and pads), and 4 shocks replaced at the same time. So 100% labor cost, was 5-bills, and I figure it should of been 6 for all that (but he wanted to make me a repeat customer). He brokedown the costs for each and the ball joint job was over 3-bills, so anything up to $400 install from a local shop sounds about right! Try getting the supplies yourself (skip their markup on them).
I just purchased a pair Moog (greasable) upper and lowers from one of the online vendors mentioned allot on this site. Without looking it up for you, I think it cost about 3-bills, and they were mailed to me. Just had em installed, along with a complete brake job (gave local garage all rotors and pads), and 4 shocks replaced at the same time. So 100% labor cost, was 5-bills, and I figure it should of been 6 for all that (but he wanted to make me a repeat customer). He brokedown the costs for each and the ball joint job was over 3-bills, so anything up to $400 install from a local shop sounds about right! Try getting the supplies yourself (skip their markup on them).
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I found the Moog's for the same price as what the Ford garage wants for the factory ones. I just was not sure about buying parts and then taking them to a shop to install, I always thought they did not like to do that and would charge me more for labor. Maybe I'm wrong.
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My mechanic will install customer supplied parts. But what you don't get is, if they supply the parts and something happens like a defect or something, the shop will guarantee the parts and labor for a year.
So IMO the 10-15 % markup the shop puts on the parts they supply is like an insurance policy for a year.
So IMO the 10-15 % markup the shop puts on the parts they supply is like an insurance policy for a year.
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