306 hdi needs a service

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306 hdi needs a service

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I found somebody there willing to change the cambelt, pulleys, water pump, altanator belt and pulleys for £100.

Ive got the parts my self the cheapest I could get them all.

What prices have people been finding?
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I do my own but have never heard of anyone doing it for that price, a charity is it? :)

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£100 labour for a cambelt job on a 306HDi with you supplying all the parts is very cheap,so cheap it makes me think is he an experienced technician and does he know the job.A small independent Peugeot Specialist would charge about £200 + VAT labour and insist on supplying the parts themselves.By doing this they would ensure the parts fitted are quality O/E units and therefore the job would be fully guaranteed. An O/E cambelt & pully kit £100,waterpump £30,aux` belt £12,(av` prices inc`VAT) Its not a cheap job but if you cut costs and fit poor quality parts you defeat the object of a cam belt job which is ensuring the long term reliability of the engine.
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If I remember correctly, I think it was £129 or £179 to supply / fit the timing belt on its own. Typically a pump would be about £75 (that includes the coolant and say another .5 labour for changing it / draining refilling bleeding coolant etc)

They were fixed prices.

For interest, it was £79 for a petrol TU, £99 for the TUD5 and the XUD's were either £129 , £149 or £179 , HDi's followed the same price really. This was about late 99 early 2000

Back on topic, yes it does seem quite a good deal. :)
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The person doing it works on world rally cars and work on lots of people cars.

I think I get the job done for £100 its cheap by the sounds of things. I got decent parts not rubbish makes even thow I got them cheap.
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£100 for a belt kit (parts) is expensive oO
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The kit for my 205TD was about 110 or 130, including the belt / the idler and the tensioner. To be fair on the XUD its a lot of metal with the tensioner too as its part of that long bracket.
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Harlequin wrote:£100 for a belt kit (parts) is expensive oO
You read that wrong its a £100 labour to fit the parts only cambelt + pulleys, altanator belt + pulleys + water pump.

The parts water pump £15, cambelt kit with pulleys £48, Altanator belt £12.
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£100 very cheap to have this job done. I been around garages the cheapest one was £150 + vat £30 = £180. That was the cheapest garage then prices went up to £220 to £250.

So for £100 thats well worth doing easy for sure.
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Things are getting serious now this person who ment to be doing the job taking the p**s. I asked when can we arrange to do the car he said he would ring me back and check when he free fair enough. I heard nothing that day then I phoned now for afew weeks no replys to texts, calls, voice messages.

Its all dam strange at first he would allways reply but the last 2 or 3 weeks it all stopped. F*ck people like that who want extra bussiness they get a bad name now tough sh*t and loss of bussiness of loads of people I know how dumb can you get.

Im sick of people lieing or pissing about. So now the car just parked up since Febuary. Ive done most of the jobs to the car now but Im stuck now.

Im not paying garage prices there ridiculas half the price of the car with out the parts!

All thats left to do now is the cambelt + pulleys, altantor + pulleys, water pump thats it. I got all the parts so thats made things alot simpler.

So Im back to the drawing board again oh boy!
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From the other side of the counter, two points:

Firstly, if there's a lull in bookings, you might take a job on if it keeps the staff busy. It can be bad to look underworked, as people may presume there to be a reason for lack of customers (quality of work, pricing).

Secondly, price shopping gives many people the Tom Tits, especially when people are trying to price you off against another place, or a nominal figure. I doubt Mr Cheap is starving for jobs, so you have simply been punted for a better payer.

I've been called a "blue collar snob" because I work with my hands yet know a Manet from a Monet. When someone just wants to screw a tradesman for the lowest price, it's simpler to brush them off politely. If they don't get the subtle approach, you might mess them around simply because it's the next easiest way to flick them.
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I hope you don't think I`m rude in saying "I told you so" LOL.If your relying on "moonlighters" and "w/end mechanics" for a cheep job your going to have hassle.If you had booked it in with a hard working,reputable,small independent the job would have been completed in less than a day,fully guaranteed.£200 or so labour,piece of mind,no hassle,job done,money well spent.(and you would not be posting on this forum at 3am in the morning!!!??)
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Oldpug wrote:I hope you don't think I`m rude in saying "I told you so" LOL.If your relying on "moonlighters" and "w/end mechanics" for a cheep job your going to have hassle.If you had booked it in with a hard working,reputable,small independent the job would have been completed in less than a day,fully guaranteed.£200 or so labour,piece of mind,no hassle,job done,money well spent.(and you would not be posting on this forum at 3am in the morning!!!??)
My chap quotes me £350 for a cambelt on the Berlingo 2.0 HDi, using genuine Cit parts, replacing all tensioners and waterpump, coolant and an oil and filter change.

I don't think that's too bad at all.

NB: It will need an oil and filter change around the time of the cambelt change, that's why it's being done then.. not because he's told me it needs one.
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I paid £420 for the car. I ant paying half the value of the car just to change a cambelt I ant that nuts!

I find somebody who will do the job cheaper I allways do haha.

But got no time for liers there bussiness is getting a bad name now from lots of people I know who pass it on and on. So its no loss to me but to them haha

Im in 306 clubs so I think I have plenty of offers now lol.
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The criteria is not how much you paid for the car initially Pete, it is more how much the job costs to do.
If the mechanic has to buy the parts there is a cost involved for him, so he has to put a markup on that price and add VAT to it.
Then there is the time involved. He has to charge an hourly rate to cover his fixed costs and make a profit.
Together they could well approach the price you paid for the car but how much is the car worth if it eats it's engine because the work wasn't done in time or properly. Or how much would it cost to recover from that if it happened?
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