Olathe Suzuki is asking $400 (revisited)

[97gs500e]

Finally.  I got my bike back.  I'd dropped it off back on Aug. 22nd.  
They were asking $100 parts and $300 labor.  I was told there was no compression in the left cylinder and I had a bent exhaust valve.

It came to $400.19 today.  The service invoice said:

service:                             ___________          price:
SERVICE LABOR                  ______          270.00
SHOP SUPPLIES                   ______         5.00
VALVE STEM OIL              _____             5.82
GASKET, CYL HEAD           ___            28.72
O RING HEAD GAS                ____        18.76
VALVE, EXHAUST             _____             43.88
             parts total      _     102.18
             labor total      _     270.00
                       tax      _       28.01
                     total      _      400.19

The bike fired right up.  Sounded better than it ever has , ever.  
Does it look like I got ripped off?
I think it was worth the time and money, since I don't know how to do that kinda work myself.

[Jake D]

That kicks ass!!!

[RVertigo]

Not at all...   It's gotta be more than 4 "shop hours" to get all that installed...  $67.50 an hour (at 4 hours) is pretty cheap around here.

[davipu]

for not being semi mechanically inclined you didn't get ripped off.  plain and simple,  I whould have sold you a exaust valve for 15 bucks shipped though, and you could have fixed it yourself.  like Pablo once told me, for some they whould rather be out riding than wrenching.  (or something to the same note.)

[dUcK_butter]

sounds like money well spent.  

[The Buddha]

OK I'd never have slapped a GS motor back together after yanking the head off wihtout swapping out the base gasket, honing the cylinders and putting new rings on the pistons. Some bike are OK to do what they did, the savage being one of them, where the cylinder bolts to the lower case separately, so the base gasket isn't disturbed. Else it sounds OK.
Cool.
Srinath.

[dgyver]

It sucks having to pay someone else to do the work. But you have a rideable bike now.  

btw...what caused the valve to get bent?