Jay_SMART_Diver
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HHHMMM...how much is worth making sure your LIFE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT works right. My last reg service was $125.00 well worth it. San Marcos, Texas, USA.
Regulator Service Cost
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Jay_SMART_Diver:
Bah, I hate those 3 words.
This whole "Life Support Equipment" thing is a load of nonsense conceived by the dive industry to convince divers that it's okay to pay outrageous prices for gear and service.
After all... isn't your life valuable? Wouldn't you rather pay xxx amount... than die? Are you so cheap you'd risk your own life to save a couple bucks?
What a load of crap.
-Brandon.
At first I thought my LDS charged about $45 each butthen I pulled my invoice out. To have both of my main regs done last year came to $130.00. Free parts since I bought them new and have them serviced each year. This was here in Oregon.
Jay_SMART_Diver
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fairbanksdiver:
I'll wait to see your obituary
Jay_SMART_Diver:
Wow man, little harsh...
Take a look at what the parts cost (heck, if you're in warranty they're often free), what tools are required and what they cost, then get ahold of a service manual and look at the labor involved.
Call it "Life Support Equipment" if you must, but regulators are pretty simple pieces of equipment.
The day I pay over $100 to have my regulators serviced will be the day I start doing it myself.
-Brandon.
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I do have the manual, tools, and the training, yet I still have my regs serviced by someone who does it daily, not just once every year or so.
The Life Support Equipment business is a bunch of Hooey, though.
The Life Support Equipment business is a bunch of Hooey, though.
for me the cost of having my scubapro gear that i loved serviced was to high that is one of the reasons i changed to aqualung in which i love also. at our show we only change our cost of parts as long as you bought if from us.
In the atlanta area the best prices I'v found is $40+parts for 1st/second and $15 + parts for octo. My reg is new enough that I haven't had it serviced yet. But I did pay $30 when a shop (not the one with those prices) noticed the second stage was leaking a little, hooked it up to a tank, noted the IP was too high, and turned it down. I wish I could get $30 for a few minutes of work....
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Ok.. I guess we've been caught. All of us that service equipment have a direct link to off shore accounts. Those drive thru tellers can be a real trip. When we don't have a trip planned we have to airmail it to Switzerland to our primary accounts. Most of us figure it will take about 3, maybe 4 years til we are able to buy our yachts and retire to a private island and spend the rest of our lives sipping cocoanut rum from out hammocks. :lol2:
Seriously, we charge $20 per stage plus parts if not under warranty. Most of the time, if a good customer has their regs serviced and even if they aren't in warranty we'll cut the price of the parts to nothing.
Sounds a bit high to me. IF I ever charged someone for this it wouldn't have been over 5-10, but then again that's just me.
Seriously, we charge $20 per stage plus parts if not under warranty. Most of the time, if a good customer has their regs serviced and even if they aren't in warranty we'll cut the price of the parts to nothing.
Sounds a bit high to me. IF I ever charged someone for this it wouldn't have been over 5-10, but then again that's just me.
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Your service price is quite reasonable unless you run into the "problem" reg. And keeping markup on prices for parts under 100 % is probably good business in the long run. Punitive pricing drives folks elsewhere or encourages them to learn that, with good care, most regs can go years without parts replacement. I've pulled o-rings from regulators that looked more like plastic than a rubber compound and they were still working. $30 to adjust and externally adjustable IP is just gouging. It doesn't take a hell of a lot of shops doing that kind of thing for all of them to earn a potential customer's distrust.
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