Brackets and braces may require additional labor to apply corrosion protection and refinish to replicate the original appearance. Reference DEG Inquiry 38011 for more information.

“After review of available information, we are unable to verify this component is consistently refinished. Should refinish be required MCE provides functionality to manually add refinish operations.

Please reference the following information from the labor general information section of the Procedure Pages under Comprehensive Labor time:

Comprehensive Labor Time

While completeness is strived for in each Guide, there will be instances, however, in which a labor time has not been established for an operation at the time of publication. If an item requires replacement and can be replaced as an individual item but shows no time, a time should be agreed upon among all parties and recorded on the damage report. It also should not be inferred that a component with no established Mitchell labor time has been included in another component’s replacement allowance.”