Cabin Heater - PTC labor time
Cabin Heater - PTC takes about 3.3 hr of shop labor on a typical vehicle. Across 1,075 vehicle and engine combinations from 32 makes, most fall between 2.5 and 3.3 hours, and the longest take up to 3.7 hours. Tesla, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche vehicles tend to take the longest; Fiat, Mini and Honda the least. The exact time depends on your car, so look yours up below or pick it on the home page.
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 $375 to $495, about $495 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.
Cabin Heater - PTC time by make
| Make | Typical | Most vehicles | Vehicles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tesla | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.3 | 131 |
| Mercedes-Benz | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.3 | 102 |
| Porsche | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.7 | 93 |
| Audi | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.3 | 65 |
| BMW | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.3 | 65 |
| Cadillac | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.3 | 19 |
| Lincoln | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.7 | 18 |
| Volvo | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.3 | 17 |
| Infiniti | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.3 | 9 |
| Genesis | 3.3 hr | 3.3 to 3.3 | 5 |
| Ford | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 3.5 | 65 |
| Hyundai | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 59 |
| Kia | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 56 |
| Rivian | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 3.7 | 46 |
| Polestar | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 42 |
| Toyota | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 42 |
| Nissan | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 38 |
| Pontiac | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.9 | 37 |
| Chevrolet | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 35 |
| Volkswagen | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 34 |
| Lucid | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 24 |
| GMC | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 21 |
| Honda | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 13 |
| Mini | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 11 |
| Fiat | 2.5 hr | 2.5 to 2.5 | 7 |
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Hours are flat-rate labor time: what a shop bills for the job when a professional technician does it. Figures come from the Open Labor Project database (how the data is built).