Car Maintenance - CAM Belts

tomstickland

kayleighb wrote: »

a few weeks down the line I noticed a knocking when I turned to the right,i found out that I neede a new drive shaft

the mechanic said it needed a new o/s anti roll bar bush

then more recently I was happily driving along & my accelerator cable snapped

my cam belt had snapped & as I was going about 80mph he said the chances are its damaged quite abit

I want a rough idea of how much its going to cost to repaoir

Most of those problems are actually pretty minor and easily fixed. Cam belt snapping is probably the end of the engine. You should be able to locate an engine from a crashed car and have it fitted for a few hundred.

I don't think it's a case of "good money after bad". It's simply fixing a problem.

manda1205

if the engine complete is a good 'un change the whole lot, the difference is taken up by the cost of consumables and its a small engine easy to remove and refit, labour should take a similar amount of time if not less

easier to fit a new cambelt too


if you snapped a valve the contact could have done the pistons in
bung in the whole engine and keep it simple, if you can get the bolt ons from the old engine too (scrappers woudd supply the engine complete i would hope) even if its just a box of bits leave it in the shed, it may save you more £££ in the future if something else goes wrong