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Reasonable, that depends upon what your time is worth to you.
List price on that sensor is 225.00, the additional cable harness that you are required to install with it is an additional $25.00. At that point you are at $250.00 in parts alone, the dealership will charge you 1 hour labor to check the codes, clear the codes, and diagnose your problem. That is a reasonable charge, and then they will probably charge you an additional 1 hour to replace the sensor, road test it, and recheck for any codes. Is that excessive? It might be a little heavy handed on the sensor replace time, i'd like to see something more like.3-.5 but that just is not realistic in a dealership environment. So, are they making $200.00 an hour? No, they are probably more in line with $100.00 per hour. Do you want it done now, done right, and carry a nation wide one year guarantee on parts and labor? That is going to cost you $465.00. Do you not mind waiting, buying tools to do the job, hoping you get the correct part from your online vendor, having to provide your own "nation wide" guarantee, not getting the coffee, carwash, and shuttle service that comes with the dealer price tag? Well if you don't mind then you can save the $200.00 and do it yourself. In the end the sensor will be replaced and so long as that is the problem then you are good to go.
You mention they want $465.00, how did you come by this estimate? Have you gone in, had it diagnosed, and paid for that as well? If you have and you decide to do it yourself you can tack that diagnostic charge right onto the cost of doing it yourself and now you have saved only $100.00. Having worked multiple sides of this equation I can tell you that it is not as straight forward as they want $200.00 more to do what I can do at home. They really are offering you more but it is up to each individual to decide whether or not the "more" they are offering is worth what they are asking or if it even has value to the customer at all.
Mark
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