Cover 11 Toyota Questions:
Is $500 a competitive price for a replacement car starter?
My Toyota Camry (2004) suddenly died yesterday afternoon. The battery JUST got replaced 11/27 so I know it isn't a dead battery. The lights would come on so I believed it could be the alternator or starter. Fortunately, my insurance covered the tow to the nearest Toyota dealership, but being it was Sunday, of course, nothing could be done. I left it there to be checked out this morning. I just got a call back from the dealership and he says it was indeed the starter and with parts and labor it will be around $500. Is this a lot? I was expecting $400 at the maximum. I've heard things from the lowest ($100 or so) to the $500, so I'm wondering if this is dealership bs or if this is really how much the part for the 2004 Camry plus labor would cost.
Chris, I also own a 04 Toyota Camry which will be my last. Once the warranty has evaporated the cost of genuine replacement parts will stop your normal heartbeat. I know for sure a new Denso (origional equipment) starter or alternator will kill a $600.00 bill. You could have purcheced a re-manufactured AC-Delco starter for $200.00 which would have had a lifetime warranty! They are simple to install on Toyota's.
My cousen called yesterday with heart failure because the Toyota dealership wanted $1,700 to replace the Catalyic Converter on her Toyota Highlander. I had to have the rear oxygen sensor replaced and the dealership charged me $385.00. I would have purchased a Denso oxygen sensor myself for $125,00 and installed it but I would have to have waited fror autopartswarehouse.com or partstrain to mail it. To put an oxygen sensor cost in perspectine, a genuine GM sensor which is made by an outside GM supplier - Delphi which costs $75.00
No more off-shore cars for me! What you save in gas you pay for in parts costs. Off-shore cars don't get the fuel economy the window stickers say they do anyway.
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