Is there a site which shows how long car repairs...

colino

Seriously, if an average mechanic cant change this on a Megane in less than an hour he deserves his books. Experience and skill come into a lot of jobs, but this is one where the apprentice would be doing it with his eyes shut.

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colino wrote: »

Seriously, if an average mechanic cant change this on a Megane in less than an hour he deserves his books. Experience and skill come into a lot of jobs, but this is one where the apprentice would be doing it with his eyes shut.

again a simple job that should take 10 mins can take days if something goes wrong, as strider said the simple of jobs can be thrown way out of time because of a snapped bolt. especially if a antiroll bar bush retaining bolt snapped and the rest of it is stuck down in the subframe, drilling, hellicoiling all take up a mans time to rectify, then all of a sudden an hours job is 4 hours due to having to drop things out the way to fit in the tools required for the job and actually doing the job to rectify fitting them back in then fitting the roll bar and connecting back up.

pendulum

I wouldn't bat an eyelid at a bill for £70 labour for an anti-roll bar TBH, no matter how long the book time says it takes or how easy it is (if it was easy I'd do it myself though).

From my limited experience of book times I think they're on the conservative side - they are a challenge to meet, I mean I couldn't get anywhere near to reaching the book time for a cambelt change on my old car, even though I'd done the job before, knew what I was doing and had all the special tools, I just found it so fiddly. As pointed out book times don't mean much anyway as some jobs will go over book time and others will go under, depending on any problems encountered and the mechanics previous experience doing the same job, so there's not much point even asking for the book time (just because the book time is 1 hour doesn't mean he has to charge for 1 hour).

27col

Back in the days when I could afford to get my Fiat serviced at a main dealer, I seem to recall that they had a large chart on the wall which gave the price of what they called menu servicing. This gave the price of many common repairs and replacements. Nowadays I go to a Fiat specialist mechanic who charges £40 per hour.