cliffud

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I'm Chinese!! (relevance to come later)

So I go to Camelback Toyota and I ask the service guy if he could give me a quote for installing my eibach springs and bilstein shocks.

The guy punches into his calculator a few times and comes up with $650.

After I stopped laughing in his face, I thanked him for the laugh and walked out to check out the cars on the lot while my car was getting an oil change (98 GS300) and everything was cool until some dip**** salesman comes up to me and interrupts me while I'm on the phone and asks if I was looking for him. He said he advertises in the Chinese newspapers which is why he was wondering if I needed his assistance.

So I said to him:

"So you're only asking me since I'm Chinese? Not only that- but you're interrupting me on the phone. Don't you think that if I were looking for someone, I would be in the building as opposed to wandering around in the lot full of cars?"

He was speechless. I complained to management but eh- they're all a bunch of dip****s car salesmen.

I will NEVER be going back to Camelback Toyota. In fact, I'm quite tempted to buy CamelbackToyotaSucks.com and post my experience there.

Question for everyone: What did your suspension install cost?


-Clifford

rominl

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man that sux.... well the inttallation varies from area to area, for me, in the LA area it should be from 100 to 150, and up here in norcal it would be from 150 to 200.

400DGRZ

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Must be nice. I can't find it for less than 4-450.

rominl

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yeah that's the good thing in cali i suppse. but then here we pay a lot of taxes on parts (coz' a lot of shops are local!)

RRocket

Well you know how it is....us white people think all Chinese look the same!

So how bad did you want to smack him??

redgs4

Funny, I joined a bowling league more than a few years back and thought the same thing about all the white folks.

NT2SHBBY

speak for yourself...I can tell Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, all apart from one another and I'm as white as you can get...

RRocket

LOL...my Filipino friend says the same thing....LOL

LEXUS_KID

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I just had my HKS coilovers installed for $150+ $50 tip = $200 not to bad for Chicago.

TLW

damn what was the labor rate there ?

cliffud

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so basically- it was going to take 6 man hours to swap the shocks and springs.

at 650 bucks - they might as well do a crap job and screw up the vsc/abs sensors - there's no doubt they can pay for those too and still turn a profit.

rominl

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damn, 92 bucks an hour that's aleady expensive imho. and 6 hours to do the springs and shocks? they use one hand to do it? my shop can do it in 1 hr...

DetMich1

SIX hours? They definitely must be working with one hand, cause the thumb on the other hand is stuck up their *ss!!

rominl

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hahhaa, well, i was just trying to use my LIMITING engineering brain to do the math maybe the guy who quoted the price can have some better explanations

rheiy

My springs and shocks were installed by Lexus. They charged 5 hrs ($400) and another 100 for an alignment. I thought my install was high but 6 hours sounds like their including lunch and break for the tech