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Car Forum / Nissan / Nissan Altima / September 2004Got my starter fixed
My 1995 Nissan ALtima was fixed but it cost me 48 bucks for tow 25 bucks for diag. 270 bucks for part 50 bucks for labor Give or take, in the end it was 470 bucks, This seems like way too much of an amount for a simple one hour job. I wish some law would be passed to stop the price gouging automechanics have been doing the last couple o decades or so. I would have done this myself but I do not have a jack or stands and there are rules in my neighborhood about working on cars. Sounds resonable. You could of saved some $$$$ by replacing it yourself, But, like you said, you don't have the tool or area. And it would of taken you allot more time to diag the problem and get the part and replace it. How do you figure the Mechanic screwed you? Out of the bill, only $75 was labor. Maybe you should be bitching about the high cost of parts instead. If you had doen the job yourself it still would have cost you $318 for parts and towing, assuming it wasn't dead in your driveway. > My 1995 Nissan ALtima was fixed but it cost me > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > decades or so. I would have done this myself but I do not have a jack or > stands and there are rules in my neighborhood about working on cars. > How do you figure the Mechanic screwed you? Out of the bill, only $75 was > labor. Maybe you should be bitching about the high cost of parts instead. If > you had doen the job yourself it still would have cost you $318 for parts > and towing, assuming it wasn't dead in your driveway. Cause the part was only 130 bucks at the parts store, so how could it cost 412 to have a shop replace it? thats like over 100% markup on the part. > > My 1995 Nissan ALtima was fixed but it cost me > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > decades or so. I would have done this myself but I do not have a jack or > > stands and there are rules in my neighborhood about working on cars. What brand starter did they install? A cheapo from Autozone is not nearly as good as a factory unit, and less money. Better starters will cost more. > > How do you figure the Mechanic screwed you? Out of the bill, only $75 was > > labor. Maybe you should be bitching about the high cost of parts instead. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > or > > > stands and there are rules in my neighborhood about working on cars. > What brand starter did they install? A cheapo from Autozone is not nearly as > good as a factory unit, and less money. Better starters will cost more. I have no clue but as you say it is probably a MUCH better unit than the one I would have gotten at autozone. > > > How do you figure the Mechanic screwed you? Out of the bill, only $75 > was [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > or > > > > stands and there are rules in my neighborhood about working on cars.
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