What the hell is going on with shops?
I'm curious what the OP would price the job out at if he was writing the estimate. As a professional, not what it could be done in the driveway for. Just curious.
So many posts I can't really answer them all, but I will do it this way in this post.
If I estimated that job as a "professional" it would be 2 -2.5 shop hours, fluid, filter, gasket, and the solinoid (which was diagnosed with a Snap on code scanner after a thrown code like is done in shops)
All the usual shop costs and taxes like disposal fees, and such.
The cost on the solinoid is 60 bucks, so lets say $120 to the customer.
I would estimate the job at about $300 - 350 total out the door.
And this estimate would be contingent on what the trans pan contents looked like after it was pulled.
I would be curious to ask all the people defending the shop if they have a shop, and if they would charge $1,100 for the job and feel justified in thier charges.
If that answer was all the excuses I have read here as to why it should cost as much as my Nephew was quoted I would hope any readers would steer clear of those shops.
Defending thievory does not make it acceptable, nor should it allow it to be the norm.
Charging more because you don't know what you are doing, or because you didn't get the amount of jobs you wanted that month and trying to make it up on other customers is a bunch of crap and tells me that the shop should not be in business anyway.
The main reason places do this is to try and get away with it, and I for one will not tolerate it if I have any say so in the matter.
As far as I am concerned, a shop that treats the customer right and does a decent job for the money will be supported in the local area, and the others will be pointed out as the thieves they are.
Simple as that.
I see posters here getting ripped off ALL the time on stuff, but I can't really do anything about that.
They need to do it for themselves, and all we can do is let it be known that we think they are getting screwed.
Otherwise getting screwed becomes the norm.
So on that note.
WARNING!
If a ANY shop gives you an estimate for $1,100 to change an overdrive solinoid on a Dodge 46RE trans RUN!, and hope they go out of business soon.