Hey, buddy, I see your asking here too.
Good Luck.

For just a 2.5i I might use your coupon the parts and have an independent shop do the labor.

 

Figure $350 parts, $50 to turn flywheel and 5 hours of labor @ $85 from an independent, so something around $800+. Dealer will probably be 30-50% higher.

The parts are only $175 shipped from Rockauto for quality Exedy parts (KSB04) but there is a lot of labor involved with this one.

 

Well, $2200 is what they quoted me (with flywheel). Thing is, car broke down and was un-drivable, so I got it towed there free by State Farm. Anyhow, it's being done, my only hope is to push back against what thy want to charge. I have notes where they quoted $1550 (perhaps before tax) awhile back, so I kinda wonder if they charge differently for "elective" and towed-in (which would be outrageous of course).

Guy at other site said 5.1 hrs labor down to flywheel and back together, and I just printed out the dealer price sheet for parts. I'll go in armed with these when I pick it up.

Maybe my $500 coupon gets me back to a reasonable (by dealer standards) price :-(

 

Well be interested to see if they put a DMFW back in the car or change over the SMFW from a 07-09 Legacy GT.

 

If it is just a 2.5i it should just be a single disc.

Looks like the user is being charged with a new flywheel. A new one from Exedy is a few hundred bucks but not usually needed over a $25 resurface. $2200 for an NA clutch job is pretty rough even from the dealer. I hope you are able to get the price down.

 

I just got my replaced yesterday on an xt. Went from dmfw to smfw using an exedy kit. Also had the fluid flushed and the rear crankshaft seal replaced. I paid about 700 in parts and 700 in labor

 

Well, it's done. They wanted to charge me $728 for parts, $1328 for labor, minus $30 "Subaru parts discount", minus $80 "non-Subaru labor discount" (wonder what that means ?), plus sales tax (including on the labor).

The parts charge seems reasonable given what's been posted here (for OEM full-price). The labor is way high - they said it was 8hrs at $155/hour (which doesn't even quite compute). I pushed back and said "book" was 4.8-5.1 (based on what people have said here and at the other forum). Woman said she couldn't do anything, but I could keep loaner and we could try to work it out with manager; I was like "no, I want my car now". So she went and "talked to manager" and came back and said 6hrs labor was the best they could do. So I took it, paid $1326 out of pocket with my $500 goodwill coupon (which I got awhile back for bitching about sticky dashboard).

So I still kinda got screwed. This is a pretty expensive area, is the only justification. But I should've had it towed to an independent garage, like you guys said, and just bought the parts with the $500 coupon.

P.S. Flywheel they installed was 12310AA36A; is that SMFW or DMFW ?

 

Be prepared there could be need for a throw out bearing repair. The snout of the transmission often can break. There is a kit to fix it.

 

Not following. They replaced the throwout bearing ("release bearing" 30502AA150).

 

$155/hr is like Maserati dealer price. I'd find another dealer or an independent that's competent.

Hopefully they inspected the input snout (as @turboskiier eluded) as that's a common wear point and can cause future issues like premature TOB failure, sticking, or broken clutch fork. Hopefully the inspected the clutch fork as well, but probably not (not part of the "R and R" book procedure).

 

In the end, $1326 is not bad considering you got a new flywheel. The 12310AA36A is single disc, all NA cars are single disc.

But yes $150/hour is crazy.