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Originally Posted by mokee92
Swapped exterior Scion emblems with glossy black Toyota emblems. Removed the FR-S emblem.
I'm here in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and trying to find a local shop to install TRD lowering springs. The prices here are insane. I called about 10 shops. The cheapest I got quoted was $602 and highest $815. Ridiculous. Either they don't like this car or installing these springs are more difficult than people have said. I keep reading that it shouldn't take over 3 hours and should cost around $300. Nope. I must be dreaming. These shops insist it's a 6-8 hour job. And a lot of shops won't even do it because it's 'custom' work. I tried to explain to them they these TRD's are designed to work with stock everything, but nope. A lot of them still wont do it.
Called the local Toyota dealership and they quoted me $440! Hah...I couldn't believe that installing at the dealership would be cheaper!
Anybody from Fort Wayne, Indiana vicinity have any insight? Should I just have the dealership install them?
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You can save that money and do it yourself. For a first timer, it would only take a 4 or 5 hours and that is including a few breaks. Last time was in my garage on jackstands and it took about 3 hours, did it in a parking stall on jackstands before.
Its pretty easy and can be done with basic tools. Really the only specialty tool you would need is a spring compressor and you can rent them from an auto parts store. There is even a technique to do this without the spring compressor.