Alignment cost, WOW

The shop I ordered the lift from said it would be over $300 to align the front end after I install my lift, upper and lower bj's, and inner and outer tie rods. Is that about normal for an alignment?

 

Way too high. I paid $85 for mine and that was one of the more expensive shops around.

 

That sounds more like it. I knew that sounded stupid high

 

Damn that's a lot. I paid 70 bucks at pepboy with me telling them what to do lol.

 

Toyota charged me $80

 

For you guys above, do you have a suspension lift on your trucks?

 

Nothing left of my stock suspension

 

If you are doing all the parts replacement listed then yes its really high...

 

Nothing stock

 

they assume if you are spending $ doing all that then you will overpay so they try to rip you off under the guise of some stupid BS about dealing with "non-standard" components and such.

find a place to treat you fairly and warn off all your friends to avoid that place

no alignment anywhere should be over $100 if all they are doing is the alignment

 

Agree with keakar, unless they throw in a hot blonde for a 1 night stand then no.

 

Nearly 8" when I got it aligned. I've since lower and aligned it myself.

 

They are not installing the lift kit as well are they ??

That would be the only way I could see the price quoted .

For that much money I will buy a Front end rack!!!

 

Mine was recently done and was in the 140 dollar range and that was only because 3 of the 4 camber bolts were frozen and took extra time to get them broke free. They explained this to me when I picked it up though but otherwise it would have been like 75 bucks.

 

I'm not having them install the lift. The lift itself is $1089. To have it installed would cost $2347 out the door. I could buy the same lift twice and still have cash left for what they want for labor. The alignment is included in that $2347 though.

 

thats ridiculous...you need to find a different shop...

 

I agree. I would think such a major four wheel drive chain store would be more affordable. Looks like I get to learn how to install a lift kit.

 

How'd I do?

 

i paid $70 twice and then sprung for "lifetime" recently for $180... 300 is way too high and unless you are buying a trophy truck crew then a thousand $$ is a lot for a labor charge on a lift...