Need an Answer ASAP!!!!

turboputz · Jun 17, 2008

Dinzdale40 said:
seems like your getting 2 diff kinds of estimates....like that last one...your getting 2 whole new hubs with bearings already in it....300+ in parts!?

but then like Jmiller said...you could just get new bearings...have them pressed into your current hubs...which is what i was thinking...$100 in parts max right? +320 for labor...equals like 420+tax...

Good point. I noticed that too. I didn't really know enough to ask whether they were switching out the bearings or doing the whole hub. I hope that I am getting the whole new hubs for that money, but I will have to ask to find out. I'll call them now.

turboputz · Jun 17, 2008

Dinzdale40 said:
seems like your getting 2 diff kinds of estimates....like that last one...your getting 2 whole new hubs with bearings already in it....300+ in parts!?

but then like Jmiller said...you could just get new bearings...have them pressed into your current hubs...which is what i was thinking...$100 in parts max right? +320 for labor...equals like 420+tax...

Good point. I noticed that too. I didn't really know enough to ask whether they were switching out the bearings or doing the whole hub. I hope that I am getting the whole new hubs for that money, but I will have to ask to find out. I'll call them now.

turboputz · Jun 17, 2008

Spoke with the shop manager:

They are replacing the bearings, but not the hubs because they are fine.
I asked him if it was about the same money because maybe it was easier to just swap the whole hub instead of removing and pressing bearings.

He said that it might take about the same amount of labor hours, but obviously the parts cost more, and the hubs are fine. He was obviously a little annoyed that I was asking any questions and sounded like I had some clue what I was talking about.

Considering a mark-up on parts I'm guessing the price would go up about $200 give or take. I guess if he was unscrupulous he could have said the hubs were fubared too. I would have asked them to show me before I paid for that though whereas I knew there was a problem in the handling and wheel bearing is an obvious answer.