Labour costs for replacing the engine - is it right?

newbie007_2

Could you not take the wheel/tyres with you when u go and collect the van? Have the garage people move it somewhere and take the wheels off. Phone local scrap yard, they normally are able to just collect the shell for free, perhaps even pay you for scrap metal.

hartcjhart

Badger_Lady wrote: »

It is, yeah - you have to lift the front seats to get to it. And in the camper conversion, the fitted units mean they don't stay up - you either have to hold the seats or take them out completely...

They have put a new timing belt on and swapped the fly wheel (my original was in better condition than the replacement one).

well with the extra work now stated the price is even fairer than I first thought

gilbert_and_sullivan

Taking two engine's out, making good probably checked and fitted the best clutch etc, then refit engine into vehicle where there's no room to work, engine's probably go in from underneath.

Various extra work they'll have had to do, very little goes right when you do this sort of work on an old vehicle.

Probably about right, damned bad luck though the camshaft going.

remember about £300 of that bill will be for MP's expenses in the form of VAT.

Badger_Lady

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Probably about right, damned bad luck though the camshaft going.

Yeah I know I was so pleased with myself, getting a good example for just £2,040 in June! Anything comparable was going for £3-3,500. So I guess in total I've spent just a little over the odds... and I've got the assurance that it's now very sound and reliable.

Unless this cam shaft goes too :eek:

Badger_Lady

All right, I'm convinced I'm now sat in the garage and chappy's taking off all the spare parts and putting them in the back of my van for me!

sassy_one

The local garage I use would charge £50 an hour to undertake the work you have had done, so does to me seem a little on the high side