The Harkness workbench: torque wrench, socket tray, and a blank job card in morning light

Services & prices

Prices on the wall. Where they belong.

The shop rate is $118 an hour and every job below starts from a number you can read before you call. Ours lives out here, in the daylight.

The board

Ten jobs. Real numbers.

A from-price is the floor for the common version of the job, and it moves for one reason only: what the vehicle actually needs. When it moves, you hear it from us on the phone first.

Suspension & steering

1.0-3.5 hr | from $145 | at cost + 20%

What the gravel gave you. Struts, control arms, alignment-ready.

Battery & charging

0.4 hr | test free, from $189 fitted | at cost + 20%

A battery that starts a car in October can quit at minus twenty. We test it charged, loaded, and cold, before you find out.

Exhaust & welding

0.6-2.0 hr | from $115 | at cost + 20%

Road salt eats pipe. We weld the section that failed instead of quoting you the whole system.

Body work, collision repair and glass go to specialists in those trades. For an ICBC claim, an accredited collision shop is the right call, and Rae will tell you which one she would use.

Prices checked: August 2026. Every figure on this page is also on the invoice, in the same words. More questions answered.

How a bill gets built here.

Worked, on a real job

1.8 hr × $118 = $212.40

The labour line of Job No. 4187, one section down. Same math, same page.

01

Book time

Every common job has standard hours published in the same industry guide every shop reads. Ask and we will show you the page for yours.

02

The rate

Hours times $118. The rate is on the wall, on this page, and on your invoice. It is the same number in all three places.

03

Parts, at cost + 20%

We buy the part, show you the supplier invoice on request, and add a stated twenty percent. The old part rides home with you in a bag.

04

Diagnosis, credited

Finding the problem is skilled labour: $89 for the hour. Approve the repair and that money comes off the bill.

The counter

Tell us what it is doing. We will tell you what it costs.

Nobody phones a shop asking for a brake service per axle. They say it grinds when they stop. Tell us what you notice and the sheet fills in with the same lines you would hear at the counter.

Pick as many as apply. Every figure below is the same one on the board above and on the invoice afterwards.

Work order

ESTIMATE, NOT A BILL

Nothing on the sheet yet. Pick what the vehicle is doing and the lines write themselves, at the prices already posted on this page.

Nothing selected

$0.00

A from-price is the floor for the common version of the job. The real number arrives after we look, with photos, on the phone, before a wrench comes out. It has never once left this shop higher than what you approved.

Want to see where an estimate goes next? Try a sample inspection report, photos and all, or see Job No. 4187's finished invoice.

A stack of four winter tires on the Harkness shop floor by the open bay door

The date is the law's, the lineup is optional

Winter tires by Oct 1. Book in September.

Highway 3 and the pass: Oct 1 to Apr 30

Some valley routes, like 3A and 6, end Mar 31 | fines apply

Changeover $60 flat on rims, $95 full swap | storage $60 a season

The morning after the first snowfall, the phone here rings all day for two weeks. The third week of September is quiet, the coffee is on, and the same work costs the same money.

Pick your changeover week

Running work trucks?

Same prices, less paperwork. A fleet account holds a bay each morning, sets an approval limit per truck, and puts every job on one monthly invoice.

See fleet accounts

Got a number in mind now?

Book online and we confirm within one business hour, or by 8:30 the next morning if you book after close. Prefer a voice? The counter answers at (250) 555-0187, 8 to 5.