Spent a total of $150 for parts and labor for the following...

[jimdigs]

..inner and outer tie rods for passenger side and driver side wheel bearings all installed. I think that was a pretty good deal. $60 for parts and $90 for labor. What you think? Pretty fair price?

[shadetree]

Yea that's a good deal ! Alignment as well ?

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wow...does he travel?

[Bert]

As with the comment above; when you burn through a set of front tires in another month or so you'll wish you'd also had an alignment done. A tech isn't going to fuss around too long with doing bearings (ie removing knuckle and hub) plus two tie rods for $90 unless this was a buddy of yours and it was an 'under the table' operation.

[Chobobulous]

Expert tire quoted me almost 200 dollars for an inner tie rod. I kindly laughed in the clerks face.

[Bert]

Tie rod replacement is not a big deal (inners are more difficult than outers) but it is always prudent to check toe-in/toe out of the wheels after. None of this is a 'black art' for doing at home as long as you are aware and think things through.

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Expert tire quoted me almost 200 dollars for an inner tie rod. I kindly laughed in the clerks face.

Yea what's the deal with inner tie rod prices. Cheapest I found locally was 80. Luckily I had a whole steering rack and two spares I had forgot about.

[denguy]

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0&_nkw=festiva+steering+rack&_sacat=0&_from=R40

[jimdigs]

Yea that's a good deal ! Alignment as well ?

No alignment. He said he tries to get it as close to where it was before he started by measuring but said I should get an alignment. Car used to pull to the right now its pretty straight. I'll wait and see on the tires I guess. I have two brand new ones in the garage.

[Banana Bonanza]

Finding an honest alignment shop is pain in rear. They are ALL geared to selling new steering parts/shocks/tires and labor (of course) even if everything is brand new on the car with not a bit of slop. Just nature of the biz. Same with transmission shops..... they want to SELL even if you dont really need anything. I have always ended up just aligning with tape measure as close as possible and waiting to see how tires wear. I can get darn close and beats dealing with scammers.