KBRX330 Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 Drove the wife's 2008 ES last night...clunking over bumps. Took it to my local indy chain tire place (saturday) where they are pretty good on alignments. Alignment fine...bad rear stabilizer bushings & links. They couldn't get a price on parts until Monday. So, I call my Lexus dealer..none in stock. I get the part numbers and call my Toyota dealer who has none in stock but his prices are $50 less. So, I order from him. My question is this: How hard is this to DIY? The tire shop wants $178 labor if I bring my parts. They said it is a 2 hour job. Has anyone done them? My service manual sais to remove the rear 1/2 of the exhaust system????? SHould I do them? OR have the shop do them? BTW, the ES has 138,000 miles.
SW03ES Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 For only $178 labor if let them do it but that's me...
KBRX330 Posted February 7, 2012 Author Posted February 7, 2012 Well, since it is going to be 20*F here Saturday I probably will.
KBRX330 Posted February 19, 2012 Author Posted February 19, 2012 Well it was 50* today and I switched out both bushings and links...took 45 minutes without a lift. So much for the 2 hour labor estimate.
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