Door Skin labor time

4.0 hrtypical
3.5 to 4.8hours on most vehicles
$600typical labor at $150/hr

Door Skin takes about 4.0 hr of shop labor on a typical vehicle. Across 31,020 vehicle and engine combinations from 63 makes, most fall between 3.5 and 4.8 hours, and the longest take up to 8.3 hours. Audi, Genesis and Mercedes-Benz vehicles tend to take the longest; Smart, Opel and Hummer 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 $525 to $720, about $600 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.

Door Skin time on popular vehicles

Door Skin time by make

MakeTypicalMost vehiclesVehicles
Audi5.2 hr3.5 to 5.2777
Genesis5.2 hr4.6 to 5.253
Mercedes-Benz4.6 hr3.5 to 5.51,804
BMW4.6 hr3.5 to 5.51,232
Cadillac4.6 hr3.5 to 5.5687
Porsche4.6 hr3.5 to 5.2674
Volvo4.6 hr3.5 to 5.2480
Lexus4.6 hr3.5 to 5.2446
Lincoln4.6 hr3.5 to 5.5332
Acura4.6 hr4.6 to 5.2241
Infiniti4.6 hr3.5 to 5.5238
Land Rover4.6 hr3.5 to 5.5177
Tesla4.6 hr4.6 to 4.6131
Jaguar4.6 hr3.5 to 5.598
Alfa Romeo4.6 hr3.8 to 5.287
Chevrolet4.2 hr3.5 to 4.23,208
Ford4.2 hr3.5 to 4.23,068
GMC4.2 hr3.5 to 4.21,547
Oldsmobile4.2 hr3.5 to 4.2557
Mercury4.2 hr3.5 to 4.2512
Ram4.2 hr3.5 to 4.2326
Studebaker4.2 hr3.5 to 4.267
Dodge4.0 hr3.5 to 4.22,279
Buick4.0 hr3.5 to 4.2775
Mini4.0 hr3.5 to 4.0144
Toyota3.5 hr3.5 to 4.01,446
Volkswagen3.5 hr3.5 to 4.01,085
Nissan3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0880
Pontiac3.5 hr3.5 to 4.2848
Jeep3.5 hr3.5 to 4.2735
Plymouth3.5 hr3.5 to 4.2702
Hyundai3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0699
Chrysler3.5 hr3.5 to 4.2620
Mazda3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0617
Kia3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0515
Honda3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0499
Subaru3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0472
Mitsubishi3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0416
Fiat3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0315
AMC3.5 hr3.5 to 4.2166
Isuzu3.5 hr3.5 to 3.5154
Suzuki3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0151
Saab3.5 hr3.5 to 4.0116
Saturn3.5 hr3.5 to 3.5108
MG3.5 hr3.5 to 3.568
Morgan3.5 hr3.5 to 3.567
Peugeot3.5 hr3.5 to 3.548
Rivian3.5 hr3.5 to 5.546
Polestar3.5 hr3.5 to 3.544
Scion3.5 hr3.5 to 3.543
Eagle3.5 hr3.5 to 3.541
Geo3.5 hr3.5 to 3.537
Daewoo3.5 hr3.5 to 3.530
Renault3.5 hr3.5 to 3.528
Lucid3.5 hr3.5 to 3.524
Hummer3.5 hr3.2 to 4.221
Opel3.5 hr3.5 to 3.520
Smart3.0 hr3.0 to 3.06

Other body 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.