Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Put my GQ in for a service, and ended up with this Bill.
They didn't just surprise me with it, did the obligatory call 1st.
Just hoping this will add up in deductions as it is a "work" truck.
Maybe someone can fill me in on that part


QTY Unit price Amount
Labour $1150.00

eng oil 10 7.98ech $ 79.80

Filter 2 31.02 62.04

Clutch kit TD42
Nissan 1 462.00 462.00

Machine
flywheel 1 72.00 72.00

Machine disc/drum 2 35.00 70.00

Spigot 1 6.40 6.40

Bush, pan hard 1 63.80 63.80

Bush CTR lower 1 135.81 135.81

ENG mount 2 105.00 210.00

T/case seal 1 49.50 49.50

H/brake shoe set 1 45.00 45.00

Wheel alignment 1 55.00 55.00

other shit bout $15




ended up at $2476.80

Do you guys think thats a fair price for getting that done at a shop?
never got a clutch done at a shop, done a few myself and $1150 with labor seemed ok.

$80 in oil seems a bit excessive, and both filters were done last service, -10k KM ago, was the filters really needed?



Also, a bit of paper about the "Vehical alignment report" was left in my car.

One example.

Front. caster Initial Spec's Final
min max
L 1.9 2.1 3.1 1.9
R 1.8 2.1 3.1 1.9


Often the "final" is not with the range of the Specifications Is that a problem?



This is really the 1st car I've owned worth getting looked at by a professional, so I'm just not to sure about what i should be paying.




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YARG! what a waist of time spaceing it out in table form for easy reading

the oil sounds too bloody dear for sure

work pays $3 a litre for caltex del gold

can buy a 20l drum of RX super for $100

i guess its not that dear all up though, depends on how much effort to do the t/case seal

How many hours labour?

I dunno about hours spent on the car, was put in on Tuesday and got it back today.

got the service done, then phone call.
told it was getting pulled apart on Tuesday/order parts
buy Thursday arvo it was back together apparently, but they were running late and i gave em Friday to "test" it.

i paid $300 to get a clutch put in

seems fair mate, oils and filters are a bit expensive, but u get that...
and yes, filters should be changed every time u change ur oil.

Troopy93 wrote:How many hours labour?

$1150 at $66p/h is 17.5 hours
at $77p/h is 15
1t $88p/h is 13

not to many places charge under $88p/h these days.

either way it's fair price to pay for what he got

I don't see anything outrageous there except the usual gouging on oil.

Clutch swap including parts cost me about 950 (on a TB42) but 1150 was within the range of quotes I got.

Clearly they gave the tihng a good going-over if you got that much done, engine mounts, handbrake shoes etc.

Seems right to me, the clutch is very reasonable, the 4-Terrain we use are dearer than that.
Oil price depends on quantity and quality, dont stress about paying that for a good oil. Anyone can get oil at $3 per litre if they buy a 205 litre, but thats a big outlay for doing it at home.
I know guys that used to charge $300 for clutches in GQ's, they also used to cut the carpet and do other unsavory things.

Joel

couldn't imagine the guys at the shop making too much of a profit out of that. pretty cheap really.

That is very fair i thing, 17 hours might be a little long but still fair.

To put in perspective althought Im in WA. Im a workshop supervisor in a ford dealership, but I have been service advising for the past 3 months as they cant find a replacement and was advising for about 10 months last year (labour shortage). Our labour rate is $125/hr so for 17.5 hrs=$2187 to do that job i would need it for a week and i would just off the top of my head quote upwards of $3500. if it was here in WA your vehicle might be of the road for 2 weeks or so as there would be a shortage of parts.

and as a guide our labour rate is average over here and i know for a fact toyota and nissan dealers charge $140-$160 an hour.

I've never had luck with Stealerships...

My last nissan dealer put my windscreen wipers on backwards to they flew off when I activated them. And that's the bits I can see - who knows what else they f#%ked up.

The Jeep dealer left all my wheel nuts loose so by the time I got home I had death wobbles because 3 wheels were about to fall off.

Then again, I took it to a 'specialist 4x4' mechanic, who took $500 off me and gave it back more broken than I brought it to them - and totally undrivable by changing my slight vibration into death wobble from hell, with no idea how they did it. (It turned out they couldn't balance Cooper tyres - they were friggen clueless - and they are THE WELL known mob out my way.)

So I guess you can be lucky ... or not.

Frankeh wrote:Labour $1150.00

ouch, no wonder i service our cars. the main problem is that i just cant trust the blokes at the workshops, they always "forget" to do something that was on the quote

Patchy wrote:That is very fair i thing, 17 hours might be a little long but still fair.

To put in perspective althought Im in WA. Im a workshop supervisor in a ford dealership, but I have been service advising for the past 3 months as they cant find a replacement and was advising for about 10 months last year (labour shortage). Our labour rate is $125/hr so for 17.5 hrs=$2187 to do that job i would need it for a week and i would just off the top of my head quote upwards of $3500. if it was here in WA your vehicle might be of the road for 2 weeks or so as there would be a shortage of parts.

and as a guide our labour rate is average over here and i know for a fact toyota and nissan dealers charge $140-$160 an hour.

Yes, but that is WA. Everything takes longer, costs more, and parts are never available...

Yep, I think its a pretty reasonable price really. Clutch replacement alone on a GQ is a big job, so the labour to do that and the service, panhard bush and lower control arm bush (pull arm press out, press in, refit), engine mounts, transfer case seal (r&r tailshaft) - was it the transfer case seal or the timing case seal?, handbrake shoes, etc is well within reason. Parts are fairly priced too. 10k filter changes are a good idea at minimum IMO.