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Just wondering if u guys/gals can help me out on this one. I made an appointment with a tuner shop to get my lowering springs installed on my gt...Dude at the shop estimated that it could take 5 or 6 hours @75 $/hr. thats a little more(time) than i had in mind. Im not a "do it yourselfer"...so i have no idea how long it will take. What do u guys think ??Thanks in advance.

Took NSimkins and myself working together about 1 hour per wheel to do...If the guy is doing it alone, I can see it taking that long...

I changed mine in my driveway in about 4 hours total.

Shop around. I had an estimate of $200.00 Can to do mine at the place I bought my tires. I ended up doing them with my brother.

Suspension my brothers car took us about 2 and a half hours. We got the whole compressing the springs thing down. It's quite easy actually.

2.5 hrs total and i didn't know what i was doing. i just stood around and helped. air tools and impact wrenches make a world of a difference!

This is without air tools or impact wrenches. We use breaker bars and hands. We real men

Quote, originally posted by TRD4reel »This is without air tools or impact wrenches. same here. and a local auto part shop changed the springs on the struts for $20 each

Had mine done for $100. $200 is a fair price.

thanks again guys-n-gals!!!! Im going to a couple different shops today, for an estimate. I'll keep u all posted.

$75 an hour?!? That's rediculous.

Yes. If we do it Paul, we can have it done for free and in 2.5 hours.

Quote, originally posted by TRD4reel »Yes. If we do it Paul, we can have it done for free and in 2.5 hours. It's a really, really long drive from Edmonton to Michigan. 1950 miles according to Mapquest.

Yeah, it's all good.

I am ordering the S-Techs in a week or two. I am having a lowering spring party mid-March. Me and my friend sare installing springs on my Vibe and his Civic, and my dad's installing a set of wheels on his Ford Econoline. So it's gona be a blast. I'm installling the springs myself with Inder and Dima and dad so it wont take a lot of time or money If you wanna truck it up here to Michigan we will help you LOL!

thanks for the offer merzbow sounds like thats going to be a blast. Its just a little too far away.Ive shopped around a few places here the city, most places are quoting me 4 hrs. But my sister lives next to a machanic..i waiting to see if he'll do it.

Holy cow thats expensive, I'm getting mine put in in the spring sometime, but holy cow $75/hour thats ridiculous.

Hey man, my guy did it for me in under two hours, let me get his phone # and I'll repost, bonus is that he is on the southside, cuz you do live on the southside right?

That sounds awsome BlackVGT, That would be much appreciated. your right, I do live on the south side, Bonus

That sounds like alot. In the past I have changed springs with the help of my friend. You can borrow/rent a spring compression tool from many automotive supply stores in Edmonton.You might need to do an alignment afterwards though. And since you'll have to remove your struts, why not install a strut tower brace at the same time?It's been nearly 5 years since I lived in Edmonton so I can't remember contact info of any mechanics I knew there, but I probably can ask a friend who used some.

Lespaul, sorry for the delay, my guy says he's waaaaaay to crazy at the moment to do them, so I can probably reccomend a different shop. Let me make some calls for you.......

..hey thanks man!!!! I really appreciate it.

Woah man, sorry to take so long, life has been crazy, anyways phone Dwayne or Shelley at Urban Performance ( I forget the number now, doh! He's in the white pages.) and tell them Blake at Partsource sent you.

FINALLY...i got my lowering springs installed. its cost me $400(CAN) ...including alignment. its worth every penny.heres a couple pics.

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took me and my friend Jason about 2 hours to do mine on my Vibe, from jacking up the car in his garage, removing wheels and springs off the car. Then going to the shop he works at, using the compressor to change the new ones on and installing the lowered set back on the car and putting the wheels on. I like to say I did as much of it as he did but I was more or less the go get it guy. "Hand me that wrench?" ya know... lol but at least I know it was done right. I can't remember now but I looked up the book time on that job but I think it was around 4 hours... so $85 an hour at the shop I worked at would have been expensive.Mine was about a 2 inch drop, yours look good to, about the same drop?

Yeah Mavrik its almost a 2 inch drop. Its the hotchkis kit!!!

It looks real nice.

Ok so since deepstaged.com is gone i guess i had to use the hotchkis lowering spring install instructions. All I have to say is (removed)!? The sizes on the install were WAY off, bolts that were supposed to be 14mm were 17mm. Also those two HUGE bolts that hold the drive train to the wheels together... how did you get them off? They were on so tight I couldn't even get them off standing on the damn ratchet (215 lbs) Anyone else have this problem?Was is this hard for the rest of you? I don't have impact wrenches and I dunno how much a breaker bar would help

A breaker bar is the ticket.

Sorry Smokin' I have no idea, I pretty much just watched as a couple guys worked on it. Although they dident seen to have much trouble with any bolts.

i have a ? for all u. im thinking of lowering my gt do u have to buy new struts or can u use the stock ones with the teins kit???

You can use the stock ones.... Most everyone uses the stock struts... I just had mine lowered a couple days ago and used the stock ones.

thanx i wasn't sure and some people told me to use the stock ones and some told me buy new ones this site is awesome you can find anything on here