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Dashboard labor time

8.5 hrtypical
6.5 to 12.0hours on most vehicles
$1,275typical labor at $150/hr

Dashboard takes about 8.5 hr of shop labor on a typical vehicle. Across 31,193 vehicle and engine combinations from 63 makes, most fall between 6.5 and 12.0 hours, and the longest take up to 21.3 hours. BMW, Porsche and Jaguar vehicles tend to take the longest; Studebaker, Alfa Romeo and Saab 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 $975 to $1,800, about $1,275 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.

Dashboard time on popular vehicles

Dashboard time by make

MakeTypicalMost vehiclesVehicles
BMW12.5 hr8.5 to 12.51,232
Porsche12.5 hr8.5 to 18.5674
Jaguar12.5 hr9.8 to 18.5271
Land Rover12.5 hr8.5 to 18.5177
Tesla12.5 hr8.5 to 18.5131
Polestar12.0 hr8.5 to 12.044
Lucid12.0 hr8.5 to 12.024
Morgan10.0 hr7.5 to 12.067
Mercedes-Benz9.8 hr8.5 to 12.51,804
Genesis9.8 hr8.5 to 9.853
Scion9.5 hr6.5 to 10.543
Chevrolet8.5 hr6.5 to 8.53,208
Ford8.5 hr6.5 to 8.53,068
Dodge8.5 hr6.5 to 8.52,279
GMC8.5 hr6.5 to 8.51,547
Volkswagen8.5 hr6.5 to 8.61,085
Nissan8.5 hr6.5 to 9.0880
Pontiac8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5848
Audi8.5 hr8.5 to 12.5777
Buick8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5775
Jeep8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5735
Plymouth8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5702
Hyundai8.5 hr6.5 to 8.6699
Cadillac8.5 hr6.5 to 12.5687
Chrysler8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5620
Oldsmobile8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5557
Mercury8.5 hr6.5 to 10.5512
Honda8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5499
Volvo8.5 hr8.5 to 12.5480
Subaru8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5472
Lexus8.5 hr8.5 to 12.5446
Mitsubishi8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5416
Lincoln8.5 hr8.5 to 12.5332
Ram8.5 hr6.5 to 9.8326
Acura8.5 hr8.5 to 8.5241
Infiniti8.5 hr8.5 to 12.5238
AMC8.5 hr8.5 to 8.5166
Isuzu8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5154
Suzuki8.5 hr6.5 to 8.5151
Saturn8.5 hr6.5 to 9.5108
MG8.5 hr8.5 to 8.568
Peugeot8.5 hr6.5 to 12.548
Rivian8.5 hr8.5 to 8.546
Eagle8.5 hr6.5 to 8.541
Geo8.5 hr6.5 to 8.537
Daewoo8.5 hr4.5 to 8.530
Renault8.5 hr6.5 to 8.528
Hummer8.5 hr5.5 to 12.021
Opel8.5 hr6.5 to 8.520
Kia7.5 hr6.5 to 8.6515
Fiat7.5 hr6.5 to 9.8315
Mini7.5 hr6.5 to 8.6144
Smart7.5 hr7.5 to 7.56
Toyota6.5 hr5.5 to 8.51,446
Mazda6.5 hr6.5 to 8.5617
Saab6.5 hr6.5 to 10.5116
Alfa Romeo6.5 hr6.5 to 9.887
Studebaker6.5 hr6.5 to 6.567

Other interior repairs

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.