FORD FIESTA hydraulic clutch replacement, overquoted? please help

wingedhorse

vax2002 wrote: »

Does that include a new slave hydraulic cylinder ?

I think that is one of the two clutch parts quoted for.

vaio

jase1 wrote: »

Oh yeah, absolutely, if it works it's great, and I'm sure I could have bought 100 more of those self-same clutches and 99% of them would have been absolutely fine. I'm just wary now because it's a fair chunk of labour if anything does go wrong.

The chances are that the clutch I ended up with was no better than the one I bought, but I got the daft one and paid the price because the garage wasn't responsible for the defective part.

No, but as you are a retail customer the business who sold you the defective clutch are also responsible for the consequential costs like labour, loss of use etc.

Where it gets really messy is if there is a dispute about what caused the failure with the garage saying it was a defective clutch and the clutch supplier saying it was defective fitting.

jase1

It took two months for the manufacturer to agree to the cost of the part and 60% of the labour of the original fitting but they refused to entertain the £100 cost of repairing the gearbox.

In hindsight I probably should have persued things further but I was just happy to get something back, not being exactly flush for cash at the time.

astgte

wingedhorse wrote: »

bearing in mind I put 404 or 440 as total as I didn’t write it down properly. I am at work, my car is at garage, I asked garage the quote and wrote it down, I didn’t ask the garage for my own registration - fortunately my husband remembers it! See edit above.



Have I hit a nerve? I have only used garage twice, and so far have been impressed have been generally helpful. However to me this quote feels high (and coming at a bad time). Checking it is a good quote seems common sense to me.

I am not necessarily interested in going with the lowest quote as reliability also matters - hence saying I wasn’t interested in Mr. Clutch etc.

My friend's local garage have quoted £320 (inc labour, and vat) and are offering 10% of clutches this month

Glad you edited the original post, it makes so much more sense now:rotfl:. Also you must have edited out the bit where you got another quote now for a ton less than the original one:rotfl:, and it's dead handy an idependent doing 10% off clutches this month:T. Anyway, as you originally asked, it's not a bad price from a known source of a garage you've already used, up to you if you want to go the route of using a garage you've personally never used thats going to do the job for a song, good luck:D

s_b

wingedhorse these cars have a concentric clutch slave cylinder on them and these are dear
a colleague i know made the mistake a few years ago of not changing this (customer cited skint ness) so he just put in a plate and diaphram
the slave went the very next day no doubt due to the new clutch putting everything in a slightly different position to where it was previously
the price you have been quoted is fair and the prices reflect quality materials being fitted,if garage fits these parts and they consequently develop a fault due to manufacture then they will be able to claim labour rates to do the job again from the factor that supplied it
this is why its bad practise to cut corners on something like this by buying cheap copies off the internet to save a bob
your quote seems fair and on ball

gilbert_and_sullivan

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this is why its bad practise to cut corners on something like this by buying cheap copies off the internet to save a bob
your quote seems fair and on ball[/QUOTE]

Absolutely spot on, funny how it's only on a certain auction site that you can for example find a reputable make of brake linings cheaper than the never heard of stuff.

Same as always if it's too good to be true, it is.

in_the_Cotswolds

wingedhorse wrote: »

Is 4-5 hours labour (£160)

Works out at about £32 per hour labour which isn't bad considering the last time I worked in a workshop in 2001 we were charging about £40 + VAT

scheming_gypsy

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Absolutely spot on, funny how it's only on a certain auction site that you can for example find a reputable make of brake linings cheaper than the never heard of stuff.

Same as always if it's too good to be true, it is.

on that same auction site there's a company that buys cheap clutches, sprays them red and then sells as a 'performance clutch'

RishiC

Go to https://www.eurocarparts.com and try and source one yourself, might be able to save a bit on the total cost.