Does this seem reasonable?

[Tony M]

I just got quoted £190 inc VAT for a full cambelt kit fitted including water pump for my misses X14XE Tigra. This includes a 1yrs guarantee for parts. Does this seem reasonable?

[Novasport]

Seems reasonable to me.

[scott.parker]

Yes very IMO

[Tony M]

I just got quoted £220 + £35 for the water pump from another garage.

[burgo]

do it yourself. really not hard

[Nova_Tek]

That's pretty reasonable

[Andy]

Thats alright is that.

[autoworksnovasport]

do it yourself. really not hard

not hard for somone who knows what there doing

[Andy]

do it yourself. really not hard
Not everybody has the time,or the abilty.

[burgo]

if no one tried to learn anything new we would still be living in caves.

[Andy]

if no one tried to learn anything new we would still be living in caves.
And what if modern day life is just too time consuming or not cost effective to learn?
Ie Say someone has a stressful,time consuming job,the last thing you want to do is fart around on a night/weekend if its your daily.Or if you can earn more money doing your job than in the time it would take to learn??
At £190 hes paying £80- £100 labour or therabouts.

[Tony M]

He's charging me £80 for the full cambelt kit, £30 for the water pump so about £80ish labour charge. No bad prices for parts being as he's putting a 12month guarantee on them. Btw I've done quite a few things on cars including cluthes etc just that no one has free time to show me how to do a cambelt (I think the Haynes manual is quite vague sometimes) If it was my own car I would attempt it but not the misses car.

[Alex J]

**** doing a cambelt yourself, pay someone and go to kfc whilst its being done, without the stress of doing it yourself

[Andy]

He's charging me £80 for the full cambelt kit, £30 for the water pump so about £80ish labour charge. No bad prices for parts being as he's putting a 12month guarantee on them. Btw I've done quite a few things on cars including cluthes etc just that no one has free time to show me how to do a cambelt (I think the Haynes manual is quite vague sometimes) If it was my own car I would attempt it but not the misses car.
That is good prices,that will be at cost on the bits aswell.

[brainsnova]

Can he do that price on a Honda civic lol

[staggy_gsi]

do it yourself. really not hard

not everyone is mechanically minded like you are mate, and attempting a timing belt is a daft idea unless you know what you're doing, or have ample time and resources to learn as you go along. them engines make a fair mess when you get the timing wrong lol

[chris gsi]

vauxhall dealers do fixed price cambelts changes a corsa is listed as £199 with vauxhall parts might be worth a call

[Tony M]

vauxhall dealers do fixed price cambelts changes a corsa is listed as £199 with vauxhall parts might be worth a call

Suppose thats going to be plus water pump plus fitting etc.

[Tony M]

Well after having it booked in at the garage, the misses insisted that she wanted it booked in for next wednesday, well guess what - the water pump collapsed last night and its slipped the cambelt about a quarter of a turn. Ahhhh !!

[Curtoise]

sounds a reasonable price, terrible luck on it slipping! sounds like its going to be more expencive now!

[burgo]

sounds a reasonable price, terrible luck on it slipping! sounds like its going to be more expencive now!

it'll be a right off now if the garage do it lol

[Pistol Pete]

Sounds like a reasonable quote to me.


do it yourself. really not hard


Not everybody has the time,or the abilty.

I could have quite easily done the cambelt on my Vectra recently, however, i just do not have the time!! Hence paying my mate to do it for me.