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Originally Posted by CharlieHustleX5
Unlikely. Less people own/drive cars in NYC compared to other heavily populated states...Let alone drive BMW's.
Regardless, I couldn't see any professional charge $90 plus parts for an axle boot replacement. That would put the shop at a loss unless the owner trafficked a batch of highly trained technicians, willing to work for pennies on the hour, using discount grade hand tools, while only having sun light to illuminate the work area.
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Ha. You clearly have not sat in traffic anywhere in the 5 boroughs. I don't know where you get your info from. The sheer population here, no matter how few people have a car, at 8 million people, and registration rate being at 46%, you are talking about 4 million cars, in an area a fraction of the state.
https://dmv.ny.gov/statistic/2015reginforce-web.pdf
Little pdf summary for you.
Unless you are mistaken, and thinking a CV boot takes 4 hours, in which case you are wrong. When I bought my car, I brought it straight to my indy, and watched him do both my CVs in 40 min.
As far as sub par tools. I know that snapon truck owners here, live in houses that would blow your mind. I have never seen any of my mechanic friends use anything other than Snapon or Mac. Shit I have a nice array of SO myself.
Oh by the way, my alternator housing bracket cost me $400 with me helping. How is that for you? Done at OMG Motorworks, a BMW specialty shop, albeit owned by my friend, but still.
Oh and according to Forbes, NY is number 3 in most expensive cars sold. I think you need a fact check. With BMW being the number 1 luxury brand. I see more BMW per minute than most see in a day.
Forbes Welcome
That being said, look at what Tom paid below. I am sure he got hit with quite the markup by going to "Benz" specialist. Seriously, CV boot is not rocket science. If anyone pays even close to $200 for one, I would call that being raped.