I have no comment on the price, i do such jobs myself.
Wackyracer, your sister needs a reality check, suggest you do a lucrative days overtime at work instead next time and let her find out for herself the hard way..:-) I've had to be similarly cruel to be kind with daughter, who despite me requesting her car for servicing for months on end eventually let me have it on a February wet and freezing day, you can be too accomodating sometimes.
For competent home mechanics (i'd still change the pair anyway) and hands on bangernomics owners then doing the bare minimum sometimes makes sense because they will probably have checked out the other side carefully and made a judgement, but for those relying on garages and who never actually stick their heads under the car (and wouldn't know what to look for if they did) it's plainly obvious good sense to fix things like this in pairs.
Someone mentioned tyres and changing one, i would only ever do that when the other one is of similar, preferably identical, type and is almost new itself.
I haven't bought a pair of tyres for years let alone a single, i rotate them to wear them down evenly and buy sets of 4 at a time....usually my spare is the original because i either don't like them or won't pay the premium prices for the makes usually fitted when new.
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