68/70Vette
Well-known member
I removed my old bushings and ball joints from my C3 control arms, cleaned and painted the control arms. They looked like new bare control arms. I took them to a local shop to have new polyurethane bushings installed. The bushings cost about $190. Thats almost twice what I could buy the bushings for from a Corvette vendor, but I figured the shop was just basically charging a retail price similar to what a car dealership would charge for their parts. I never asked about installation cost. I was surprised to find I was charged for two hours labor for a total labor cost of $200. This doesn't seem right. I assume they had the factory recommended Kent Moore tool to press in the bushings. It seems to me that half an hour of labor would have been plenty generous. Is pressing in the bushings more of a job than I suspected?...or did I just make a contribution to the shops overhead?