Hey Twinturbo,
Thanks for the feedback.
I contacted the guy at lexus who said the following in response to what you told me that I passed on to him:
"I talked with the parts dept. and we got the front shocks for $62 each, and the rears for $51 each. All the book times I have found list the front struts for 2.5 hrs for both and the rears for 2.2 for both.
Even at $75 and hour, that comes to $352.50. For $100???? That's $21.77 per hour which wouldn't even pay the technicians around this place. I don't know how any shop could do that, especially with factory parts. I think that it may have been a single tech, with his own shop, that did the job (no overhead). I'm not sure if they are factory struts either, prices sound kind of out there. I don't understand how the fronts would be a little more and the rears would be so much cheaper. I'd think if the rears were cheaper, the fronts shoud've been also."
Thoughts?