RE: Installation costs?!?

["Wally Green" <coolwally@email.msn.com>]

dude, where do you live??

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Wally G.
coolwally@msn.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jettaglx@igtc.com [mailto:owner-jettaglx@igtc.com]On Behalf
> Of Talitmon@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 1:54 PM
> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject: Installation costs?!?
> 
> 
> Help me out my fellow VW buddies!!,
> 
> I just recently purchased Autotechs front and rear swaybars, as
> well as the upper front stress bar.  Looking at the instructions
> it just seems a little too difficult for me to work out, and I don't have
> all the tools necessary to do the install. 
> 
> I took the front/rear swaybar, and the stressbar to a ma and pop
> shop that deals only with VW's and they quoted to me that it would
> cost about $300.00 in labor to do the install.  They said that they
> would have to lower the front subframe to install the front swaybar
> and the entire job would take most of the day.  Needless to say
> the excitement of my first upgrades went up in flames!! 8-()
> 
> So tell me my friends, are ma & pop smoking crack behind closed
> doors?  Does it really cost around that much to do a job like that?
> I only want to take my car to someone that seems trust worthy
> and know what the heck they are doing.  They told me that if they
> don't lower the subframe, that they have seen too many broken
> subframe bolts.
> 
> Thanks for all of the input......
> Talat
> 97 GLX
> Blk/Blk
>