I spent £400 fixing my car is this right?

[carrie_girl_wonder]

Yes, as you can see I spent £400 on what was meant to be a simple service! However, the rear wheel cylinders had to be changed, N.S.F flexi hose had to be changed,sump washer changed,n.s.f C.V boot changed and rear tyre as well. So i guess parts, labour, vat and full service is £400. my dad insists that this is a good deal but i'm not too sure???

ALSO,they reckon my carberetor is on it's way out which will be expensive,could i just get one from a scrappy and get a mate to fix it,I have no idea how all this works?

AND it has 2 oil leaks,which I told them it had when I got the car but they said they could not find anything,and now this is apprently going to be costly to!!!!!

I knew it sailing through the MOT was too much to ask for! :confused:

[peester]

tyre+fit=£30
cv boot and flexi+fit=£50-£75
rear wheel cyl+fit=£50-£75
service=£50-£75

Ide say nearer £200 for the job.
£400 way too much :-(

[Iain]

If it failed on those things on the MOT then I guess they had to be fixed! And if you've already paid the £400, I'd stop worrying about if it was too much or not cos there's nothing you can do about it now. lol

[Jon_nova1]

tell them to suck cock and get some fellow pngers to help you sort it ;)

[Iain]

tyre+fit=£30
cv boot and flexi+fit=£50-£75
rear wheel cyl+fit=£50-£75
service=£50-£75

Ide say nearer £200 for the job.
£400 way too much :-(

Counting your highest prices there, that's £250, then maybe £50 for the MOT, that's £300. I have no idea if those prices are good or not tho cos I don't think I've ever taken my my car to a garage to have work done. lol

[rednova]

my cav is going to cost that to get an mot this time round but the way i look at it - it will be good for another year, I could buy a new car but, for that money it could cost me soon enough anyway.

[carrie_girl_wonder]

Yeah i know but GRRRRR.

Any advise about the carborter?however yuo spell it!

[peester]

carb cleaner for the carb.
iain, yeah guess your right.. early morning still yet.. still £100 over.

[Andy]

What engine is it?

[Jon_nova1]

carbs never fail, only the autochokes do lol just buy one of here, its all of take the air filter off and 3 12/13MM nuts

[Spudly]

carbs never fail, only the autochokes do lol just buy one of here, its all of take the air filter off and 3 12/13MM nuts



Not true, if its a pierburg 2e3 theyre made by fisher price and fall apart at the drop of a hat, ive had a few of them and have had good and bad ones, when they work theyre mint when they dont the car doesnt run!

What engine is it carrie?

[Balley]

tyre+fit=£30
cv boot and flexi+fit=£50-£75
rear wheel cyl+fit=£50-£75
service=£50-£75

Ide say nearer £200 for the job.
£400 way too much :-(

depends, if we did it at my work would proberly been more along the line of £500, at the end of the day decent oil would be £30+ the filter and thatsnot the service!

[Jon_nova1]

I've had about 4, and only had dodgy autochokes....where you stop at petrol stations and it won't start for about an hour afterwards

she has a 1.6 merit?:wtf:

[Spudly]

I've had about 4, and only had dodgy autochokes....where you stop at petrol stations and it won't start for about an hour afterwards

she has a 1.6 merit?:wtf:


I know of a few people who have had epic bother with 2e3's and if you ask about anyone will tell you theyre poo lol

[Jon_nova1]

just take note of the second point then of buying one of here lol

can only assume shes got an old school astra carbed engine in a 1.2 shell, or got a 1.2 and REALLY wants something faster lol

[carrie_girl_wonder]

lol I think it's a 1.6 cav engine from what the guy said years ago when i got it but thats debatable.It's stopped over running a bit now since the service but yeah auto chokes poo as well,the whole engine is poo,shouldn't have taken an ex boyfriend along that knows nothing about vauxhalls when i went to look at it,oh well all you can do is learn!:)

I might sell George for something faster but I love him so much I'd cry if I sold him to some gay boyracer,for him to undo all my hardwork of fixing all the bodge jobs from the last guy.

[carrie_girl_wonder]

oh yeah i know this is really dense,but are all carbortors the same or do i have to get a specific one ...

[Jon_nova1]

you want to sort out the bodges i keep finding on this car? i found a funny one the other day....forgot what it was...guess it wasn't that funny afterall:wtf:

a 1.6 old school vauxhall should work fine, an astra 1.6 carb should work fine, i had one bolted to my old 1.4 lol

specifics are what engines size its off and vauxhall, i'd assume they're bolted the same

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-CAVALIER-1-6-GL-FOR-BREAKING-1600-CARB_W0QQitemZ290348364169QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Ca rsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item439a1c7189&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

get a redtop:)

[General Baxter]

i say go to injection, you cant go wrong lol

we could all have a mince at your to fit it lol

[Jon_nova1]

we could all have a mince at your to fit it lol

a mince at her what?lol

[Spudly]

a mince at her what?lol



Get in line boy lol

[Jon_nova1]

yes sir:(

[General Baxter]

what are you lot on about, whats wrong with going to have a mince ?:confused:






Lol as long as i get tea and jaffa cakes, served topless win win lol

[Jon_nova1]

mmm, Jaffa cakes

[General Baxter]

mike would be there like a rocket lol

how can a thread start off with someone moaning about the price to fix her car, turn into a thread about jaffa cakes and boobies lol

[Martin]

coz we all wanna eat jaffas of her boobies?

[General Baxter]

ill be a nice kind person, ill eat them from her cowboy hat lol

[Jon_nova1]

She started it lol

not too sure myself, i think it started with your mincing comment and missing out vital parts lol

its ok, i'll be going in a bit, so she can come back to only a partially jacked thread, well going when i get an answer to my bonnet catch in mech...damn i feel so retarded making that topic lol

[Nobby]

at our garage the price would be

Full service 2 hours labour at £46.50 - £93
Parts for service £50? give or take includes flushes sundries etc etc
Flexi hose 30mins labour £23.25 plus part £10-£20?
CV Boot £10 + 1 hour labour £46.50
Mot Test £40
Rear cylinders 30mins a side £46.50 plus cylinders £10-£15 each
Tyre £30? depends on size?

£93.00
£50.00
£23.25
£20.00
£46.50
£10.00
£40.00
£46.50
£30.00
£30.00

£493.00 total + vat £70.35

£563.65 at my garage thats based on basic prices and were only a local independent so at a bigger garage i would expect more and i do the invoicing so i know that would be the price we might give or take here and there as its an old car and you love it etc etc and your a bird :D hehe but i would rest assured that you havent been ripped off. It easy for some people on here to say oh that too much but yeah it might be i could do that on a saturday morning for £100 plus parts but then you havent got any gurantee etc etc.
Hope that helps!

[dj_wudgey]

carbs never fail, only the autochokes do lol just buy one of here, its all of take the air filter off and 3 12/13MM nuts

i agree with that every carb i have had on any off my nova's the auto chocke has stoped working lol

[Spudly]

how can a thread start off with someone moaning about the price to fix her car, turn into a thread about jaffa cakes and boobies lol



Welcome to PNG:thumb:

[Lee]

For me spending £400 to service a Nova is shocking but then not everyone has nouse with a spanner.

But you are part of a club, and in future ask for help first, there are plenty of people who would be happy to help without the alteria motive of wanting to be in the same pair of knickers as you lol

EDIT just re-read and realised Im getting uber naive in my old age lol

[carrie_girl_wonder]

Yes it does thanks :)



at our garage the price would be

Full service 2 hours labour at £46.50 - £93
Parts for service £50? give or take includes flushes sundries etc etc
Flexi hose 30mins labour £23.25 plus part £10-£20?
CV Boot £10 + 1 hour labour £46.50
Mot Test £40
Rear cylinders 30mins a side £46.50 plus cylinders £10-£15 each
Tyre £30? depends on size?

£93.00
£50.00
£23.25
£20.00
£46.50
£10.00
£40.00
£46.50
£30.00
£30.00

£493.00 total + vat £70.35

£563.65 at my garage thats based on basic prices and were only a local independent so at a bigger garage i would expect more and i do the invoicing so i know that would be the price we might give or take here and there as its an old car and you love it etc etc and your a bird :D hehe but i would rest assured that you havent been ripped off. It easy for some people on here to say oh that too much but yeah it might be i could do that on a saturday morning for £100 plus parts but then you havent got any gurantee etc etc.
Hope that helps!

[carrie_girl_wonder]

haha I can't believe someone wants to eat jaffa cakes off my boobs,reminds me of last weekends antics and the dodgy pictures on facebook :wtf:

[carrie_girl_wonder]

I can't believe you still remember the cowboy hat,it still lives as well :thumb:


ill be a nice kind person, ill eat them from her cowboy hat lol

[Nobby]

haha I can't believe someone wants to eat jaffa cakes off my boobs,reminds me of last weekends antics and the dodgy pictures on facebook :wtf:

you mena i actually took an interest in your antics and missed the part of eating jaffa cakes off your boobs!!:eek: :roll: lol

[bmw156]

yeh the carb is probably specific, and there are different ones,

get up a pic of the engine and people will tell you what it is

the oil leaks are probably gaskets and are like 30 min jobs,

just start reading things on here and learn how to do it ya self :)

Mechanical ------> that way

[muzzy]

£400 is not bad, they may have come across seized nuts/bolts and other problems which adds up in the labour charge, then you have parts which again all adds up.

[Jack]

haha I can't believe someone wants to eat jaffa cakes off my boobs,reminds me of last weekends antics and the dodgy pictures on facebook :wtf:
Top class ASW post :thumb:

[brainsnova]

you could of blagged your car repairs over PNG and saved a few quid but been a bit sore from all the action to repair your car.

[General Baxter]

you could of blagged your car repairs over PNG and saved a few quid but been a bit sore from all the action to repair your car.

im sure there would be a few people who would repair her car to eat her jaffa cake lol

[Jon_nova1]

im sure there would be a few people who would repair her car to eat her jaffa cake lol


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you think?lol

[carrie_girl_wonder]

Well i'm not one to ask randoms to do work for me really.

If you want a jaffa cake I'd make an excellant cuppa tea to go with it :thumb:

[General Baxter]

If you want a jaffa cake I'd make an excellant cuppa tea to go with it :thumb:

lol

[brainsnova]

Well i'm not one to ask randoms to do work for me really.

If you want a jaffa cake I'd make an excellant cuppa tea to go with it :thumb:

we are not ALL randoms ;)

[carrie_girl_wonder]

Well, no but you get what I mean :)




we are not ALL randoms ;)

[Nobby]

Well i'm not one to ask randoms to do work for me really.

If you want a jaffa cake I'd make an excellant cuppa tea to go with it :thumb:

thatl doo 2 sugars 4 me!

[Jack]

I'd make an excellant cuppa tea to go with it :thumb:
Can I just come for the tea?

[Spudly]

Can I just come for the tea?



And ill come for the jaffa cakes;)

[Jon_nova1]

do it next year sometime and i'll come round when i pass, i'll "supervise" while seeing how many jaffa cakes i can fit in my mouth

[carrie_girl_wonder]

anyone from here is more than welcome to pop round for a nice brew. I make my tea with leaves and a pot,the proper way!:d

[Jack]

WIN

[wwmnw]

I'll be down tomorrow, first thing.

[carrie_girl_wonder]

haha I have no idea where durham is! most people on here are a bit of a treck from me!

[Mike]

anyone from here is more than welcome to pop round for a nice brew. I make my tea with leaves and a pot,the proper way!:d

Top bird :) PNG meet at your gaff then :p

EDIT: Ill bring my own jaffa cakes, a whole pallet full :)

[Sloth]

*insert Nerdy Post Here*

Hai Asl Plz. Its For Spud, Honest......
Lol

[Spudly]

^^^^^Omfg......................................... ...:eek:

[Sloth]

what? im just nosey......

* disclaimer, im happily taken, and mrs sloth is fully aware of this thread.*

[brainsnova]

mrs sloth is away on holiday lol

[General Baxter]

[dirty] whilst were tea bagging her container, would be shouting hay you guys, at you dogging thru the window

[Sloth]

mrs sloth iosnt dude. and gb, thats just your fantasy.....

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AND IM SPENT....

[Jon_nova1]

anyone from here is more than welcome to pop round for a nice brew. I make my tea with leaves and a pot,the proper way!:d

But the problem is, as you say, most are abit of a trek, so what your best doing is giving us all your address, we'll store it in our satnavs, and when we really can't be arsed driving home from a car show on a sunday, we'll just crash at yours....erm....come round for tealol