It is wrong to order the part you need for your car and then have the mechanic install it?

get a new mechanic it’s a one hour job at most and as you have seen the pump is $99

Do you bring your own bread to a restaurant and ask them to toast it for you?

Do it, that’s how I do it whenever something breaks on my car. For example. My shop wanted to charge me $550 to order a new radiator and install it. I bought the radiator online myself for $150, bought 2 gallons of coolant and had them install everything for $120. Saved over $200 just by buying the radiator myself. And it turns out the radiator I bought was WAY better and had a way better warranty than the one they were trying to order for me. ALWAYS buy your parts online and have them install it. They jack up the prices on the parts way too much…

You should buy the pump yourself and if your mechanic doesn’t accept, find another one! (If you’re sure that the part you found is wright.)

You can. Ask the mechanic first. They just won’t guarantee the part that’s all. Meaning if the fuel pump broke after 10 days. Don’t go crying to him.

If you pay for his part and it broke down after 10 days. Most likely he will replace it at his cost because of the warranty.

if they will install it they probably suck or are just bad at math. they need to make $ to stay in buisness, if they do it for less they loose $ on the job. you won’t have any warranty either so if your cheap part fails you get to do it again. I can always get parts for less but I want my car to run. when people want it for the cheap I tell them to take it down the street and have the loosers there do it because they are one in the same.

LOOSER!

Shops make their money from parts. Sometimes you may find something on the internet that you think is right, but it may actually be different from your actual pump. Most mechanics will not want to put on Customer obtained parts, as they are held Liable if anything happens. Also you will have no warranty at all on a part which you obtain. You might check around and compare prices at other shops instead of settling on the first price you are given.

Nothing wrong with that. The only bad thing about it is that you just proven to his face that he is jacking up the price on the part to get more money from you, instead of asking 99 for the part and 400 to install it.

The only thing I that he might say is that the part he is buying is brand new with warranty from the manufacturer and yours is remanufactured/rebuilt. He could install it but will not give you any gurantee at all.

My mechanic is cool, He shows me options on where he gets his parts, and asks me if I could get it myself from the junk or other auto parts store then I tell him where we could buy the parts and he buys it there and uses his reseller’s discount. Then that is what I pay for it plus his labor hours.

But again the major difference is the warranty. Your part no warranty.