TireDiscounter Qoute for Lowering Spring Install

[Shady195]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

You know the funny part for me is that although I have zero interest in doing my own work anymore if given the opportunity to go help somebody else I would do it in a heartbeat.

I feel the same way. I used to do EVERYTHING on my own cars, now if I have the money and can let someone else do it I will simply for the convenience of it.

However that same shitty thing Id rather pay someone else to do, I'd go help someone with.

Makes 0 fucking sense

[raven1231]

Found two reasonable places. The first is very reasonable and is ZNPerformance but is 1hour and 40minutes away in Columbus, only charge $175. Another place is down the street from me and said they would do it for $285 which is what I'm going to do. Still blown away by the labor charge from TD

[Jond63]

Originally Posted by LucidMomentum

I always rent spring compressors when doing this sort of thing. It's much safer. Autozone gives you the deposit back as long as you don't break anything.

And you can get a set from Harbor Freight for $10.

[HotLavaFRS]

I bought myself a set of spring compressors a few months back since I ended up replacing springs several times on a couple cars for different applications. If you're comfortable doing it yourself, rent some spring compressors (The kind that attach from the outside) and go to town, then all you'd need to do is get an alignment, most shops are going to charge a hundred bucks per corner plus the alignment costs.

[CatDaddysBBQ]

I think the dealerships charge around 600 installed (with the parts), so yeah, a grand is silly.

[raven1231]

Yeah they were saying it was like 7-8 hours labor lol. Oh well found a local shop giving me a hell of a deal. I'm getting a set of Michelin Pilot Sports 3's in 245/35/18 for $450 mounted and balanced, installing springs for $285, and alignment for $60. Thanks everyone for your help and advice though. I also got a lot of offers to help from my local frs/brz facebook group. Glad to be part of a mostly supportive and awesome community. For those asshats, I can be one sometimes too, so I guess we need you too.