Spend Jake's Money.

[JPolen01]

I've found that they typically want a few times more than what I would expect for any given job. Hence the reason I haven't had them do any work.

When he said $5k to do the subframe mount reinforcement on my M3 I thought I misheard him at first. Nope. Bimmerworld only wanted just over 1k I think.

Yeah that's what happens when you are the only "known" BMW/German shop in town. Closest BMW dealer is Charlottesville and most people don't want to drive there so they just pay the inflated price.