So if someone suppliess shop with a part and it doesn't fit the shop should just eat the labour ...I'm actually surprised they would quote you, I would charge by the hour and keep going until they fit or you ran out of money.
Then the shop shouldn't accept the job. They accepted the job knowing the customer bought the parts. That's on the shop. Not the customer. And even that aside. You're telling me for 700 bucks the shop couldn't get the steering back at 0 and the alignment done? Especially when they realized they couldn't finish the job?
Yeah. I did hookers myself in a garage (sort of) and guess what? The steering is dead center and the alignment is near perfect. And yes. I pulled the column, dropped most of the steering linkage and had to flip the power steering box out of the way.
And to everyone who bitches about that style of header. Then don't buy them. They do fit. If you are willing to do the work to get them in. They don't drag if your car isn't unreasonably low. And mine only leaked occasionally for the first month, like all headers do as they fit to the head. I checked them once a week for the first month. Then once a month after. I haven't had to tighten them since that first month.
Around here 700 bucks should by you at least 7 hours of shop time. I got my headers hung in 4 hours in a garage. That shop knew before lunch if those headers were going to fit or not. They had lots of time to at least put the car back the way you brought it. You paid 700 bucks to get your car back in WORSE condition. Bottom line.
