68stang351
Founding Member
its easy...i work on toyotas for a living and can have a regulator swapped out in less than 20 minutes, the motor is also easy...everything is bolted in
my dealership charges $110/hr for labor...yeah...
factory OEM parts are ALWAYS expensive and dealerships charge alot for labor, and often will replace things as systems rather than just a single part, making the cost add up. i just did an alternator job on an 03 focus zts used car and i did the alternator, battery and serpentine belt. no sense in having the charging system apart 3 seperate times, so all were done at once. its not swindling, just trying to sell the "whole" job
And another reason for this is because you wouldn't want the customer to come a month after having the alternator replaced with another problem related to that job, like a battery or belt. Then you look like you half-assed it and the customer is mad because they have to come right back, and you and the customer both are wasting time when it could've been done right the first time, like you did.
Dealerships *usually* do great work.