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The labour is downright hilarious, I've had the door panels off and back on in less than 15 minutes for both sides when I had the windows tinted, frankly that 1800.00 is insulting.
Last edited by Newusername; 11-30-2022 at 03:46 PM.
Someone wants to rip you off. I just checked online and you can a) buy the door panel for $2,355 each and b) only pay $110 for shipping. Saves you $2,500 right there if you really wanted to go that route.
I don't know how dealers can get away with stuff like this. Just came back from an Infiniti dealer yesterday, they said it would be $700 in labor to replace a small 4" coolant hose on my car.
That's the 'I don't wanna do it' price. I had mine done under CPO and I was only at the dealer for 2.5 hours, so I'm guessing a tech was on the car for maybe 2 hours...at their labor rate that would be around $500 of labor.
And for $1700 you can fly to Germany and pick them up yourself and fly home.
I recently upgraded my speakers and installed soundproofing in the doors and agree that it is a 15 minute job but there would be additional time involved to switching over the door pulls, lock release, window/memory switch, wiring, trim and Bose emblem from your original panels. Certainly not $1800 worth of labor but maybe an additional hour or two. The next issue is that the new panels use the same crap glue and will probably delaminate again. +1 for Pedro.
Jim