I just got an estimate on replacing the shocks on my 96M. My usually trustworthy garage wants $1400 to put 4 Bilstien HD shocks on my car. They say:
1) The hours are really high because they have to disconnect both upper and lower control arms off to get at the shocks. 2) They have to do a 4-wheel alignment afterwards.I can see that 1) implies 2), but is 1) really true??
$1400 seems pretty rediculous for replacing 4 shocks.
Hell, I could by a spring compressor, take a couple days off w/o pay to do it myself and still end up ahead of the game.