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Brake Line - Single labor time

1.5 hrtypical
0.9 to 1.5hours on most vehicles
$225typical labor at $150/hr

Brake Line - Single takes about 1.5 hr of shop labor on a typical vehicle. Across 31,218 vehicle and engine combinations from 63 makes, most fall between 0.9 and 1.5 hours, and the longest take up to 2.5 hours. Chevrolet, Dodge and GMC vehicles tend to take the longest; Lucid, Geo and Eagle the least. The exact time depends on your car, so look yours up below or pick it on the home page.

per hour

Enter a rate to see the labor cost of each job. Many US shops charge somewhere between $100 and $200 an hour.

At $150 an hour, labor for this job is usually $135 to $225, about $225 on a typical vehicle. Parts are extra.

How long it takes across all vehicles

Hours, in half hour steps. Each bar is how many vehicle and engine combinations fall in that range.

Brake Line - Single time on popular vehicles

Brake Line - Single time by make

MakeTypicalMost vehiclesVehicles
Chevrolet1.5 hr0.9 to 1.53,208
Dodge1.5 hr0.9 to 1.52,279
GMC1.5 hr0.9 to 1.51,547
BMW1.5 hr0.9 to 1.51,232
Nissan1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5880
Pontiac1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5848
Audi1.5 hr0.9 to 1.8777
Buick1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5775
Jeep1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5735
Plymouth1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5702
Hyundai1.5 hr0.8 to 1.5699
Cadillac1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5687
Porsche1.5 hr0.9 to 1.8674
Chrysler1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5620
Mazda1.5 hr0.8 to 1.5617
Oldsmobile1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5557
Mercury1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5512
Honda1.5 hr0.7 to 1.5499
Volvo1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5480
Subaru1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5472
Lexus1.5 hr1.0 to 1.5446
Mitsubishi1.5 hr0.8 to 1.5416
Lincoln1.5 hr0.9 to 1.5332
Jaguar1.5 hr1.0 to 2.5271
Acura1.5 hr1.5 to 1.5241
Infiniti1.5 hr1.5 to 1.5238
Land Rover1.5 hr0.9 to 2.0177
AMC1.5 hr1.5 to 1.5166
Isuzu1.5 hr0.7 to 1.5154
Tesla1.5 hr1.5 to 1.5131
MG1.5 hr1.5 to 2.068
Peugeot1.5 hr0.7 to 1.548
Opel1.5 hr0.7 to 1.520
Mercedes-Benz1.2 hr0.9 to 1.81,804
Toyota1.2 hr0.8 to 1.51,446
Volkswagen1.2 hr0.7 to 1.51,085
Kia1.2 hr0.8 to 1.5515
Fiat1.2 hr0.7 to 1.5315
Suzuki1.2 hr0.9 to 1.5151
Ford1.0 hr0.9 to 1.53,093
Mini1.0 hr0.8 to 1.0144
Genesis1.0 hr0.9 to 1.053
Ram0.9 hr0.9 to 1.0326
Saturn0.9 hr0.7 to 0.9108
Alfa Romeo0.9 hr0.9 to 1.087
Morgan0.9 hr0.7 to 0.967
Studebaker0.9 hr0.9 to 0.967
Scion0.9 hr0.9 to 0.943
Daewoo0.9 hr0.7 to 0.930
Renault0.9 hr0.7 to 1.528
Hummer0.9 hr0.7 to 0.921
Saab0.8 hr0.7 to 1.0116
Smart0.8 hr0.8 to 0.86
Rivian0.7 hr0.7 to 0.746
Polestar0.7 hr0.7 to 0.744
Eagle0.7 hr0.7 to 0.941
Geo0.7 hr0.7 to 0.737
Lucid0.7 hr0.7 to 0.724

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Hours are what a professional technician takes with the right tools, the same way shops quote jobs. Figures come from the Open Labor Project database.