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Old 04-30-2025, 06:51 AM   #3
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Before I farm out a job, I'll watch a video on how to do it and decide if I want to tackle it or not. While each individual job to get to the actual bearing replacement looked doable, collectively it looked like more work than I wanted to take on. Plus I have a DE date on the 10th I need to be ready for. So while it looks like their labor bill is extreme, there are multiple steps to get to the bearings that are labor intensive. Then take it X 2 because they have to put all the stuff back together.

I get your point about doing jobs yourself. That's how my Wheeler Dealer hobby works - I do the maint and my time is "free". But sometimes my time has value and I choose to farm out certain jobs. My Cayman is back at SLM to have them replace the rear shocks. Same scenario - it looked like more work than I wanted to take on and I'm time crunched.

While I don't begrudge them the price of the replacement, I could be a bit miffed at them not saying it was the toe arm that was the issue, not the wheel bearing. But I didn't come in saying I had a wiggle in the wheel and can you find out why, I said I needed wheel bearings. They asked why I felt that was the problem and I said the wheel had a wiggle. So they did what I asked them to do and found the real reason why.
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