I'm pretty new to the moto world and recently picked up an '09 WR125 from this very website. One of the better decisions I've ever made, I think. Anyways, I'm certainly not gentle with the little whipper snapper, and after a while started noticing a considerable amount of fluid dripping out of my fork legs. I come from a mountain bike background, and have replaced seals on an old triple clamp Marzocchi Super-T many times but due to time, lack of materials, and intimidation decided to take my bike in to a local shop to get the seals replaced. In the end, it cost me about $200. 3 hours labor at $65/hour, plus parts. Now, this took me a bit by surprise as I guess I figured it'd be a ~ $100 fix (or less). Anyways, having no experience taking a bike in to get worked on, I'm just wondering if these are fairly standard rates? The shop is a new Husky dealer, the guys are nice and they seem to work on a lot of bikes. I don't have a whole lot of other options in Central Kentucky so I guess I'm just wondering if this sounds standard or I'm getting fleeced.
3 hours of labor at $65 per hour seems really steep for fork seals. Did this include removal and reassembly off the bike? My local shop does fork seals for $35 per leg (forks off the bike): http://www.solid-performance.com/service/suspensio
Seems like a lot of time flagged for that job, even if the forks were on the bike. I can typically change out one fork seal in an open cartridge fork in less than an hour, maybe an hour and a half for both of them.
yeh that pretty exy(cheaper than that here in OZ even!) unless he threw a fresh piston & rings in for good measure. rate ok but 3 hours is pretty rude
$65 an hour for shop time is a huge bargain! 3 hours does seem excessive but the rate is awesome. It is $110 hour at my local Euro stealership but I try to avoid them and get my work done at Hall's if possible and they are around $75 an hour which is reasonable to me.
Yeah, this was forks on the bike. Anyways, good to know $65 isn't a terrible rate. I just need to figure out how to do it myself anyways, I prefer working on my own bike (isn't that half the reason you own one?) Thanks y'all!
