Here you go AxelWolf

[MisterV]

V, speaking of auto repair, if there is anything left that you allow others to do, have you noticed the post Covid phenomenon not only of prices skyrocketing, but that the disparity between having the dealer do the work and non-dealer is closing. Used to be having a non-dealer do work on your car always cost so much less.

I think part of it is that genuine factory parts are getting extremely expensive and the dealers aren't letting the non-dealers obtain the parts at much of a discount.

On one of my newer cars the dealer wants over three grand to change brake pads and rotors and a non-dealer wants almost about the same. I looked into it and the genuine factory parts alone cost about $2700.

No, I haven't noticed that, but what you say makes sense.

I wonder whether the price that discount online sellers such as Rockauto.com ask for OEM parts these days, post-Covid, differs much from what you'd pay over the counter at the dealer?