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£801 Cambelt



timmmah

timmmah

  Formally Clio 182
You got to be f**king kidding me right?

Renault have quoted me £801 for a cambelt.

How the hell can a rubber belt being put round your camshaft, crankshaft, and all other other pulleys possibly cost that much.

I respect these garages mechanics need to make a living but seriously... most of that cost is labour and not the part and I really don't think it would take that long.

So... how long does it actually take to do and what is the average cost for an hourly rate to do this and for the genuine part itself?

Sorry for the rant, but finding that sort of money right now is tough and it's irritating because I'd love to have it done in a couple of months when due because my car is my pride and joy.
 
Craigus

Craigus

  328, MK1 Clio 1.4
Wow, that is ridiculous, that garage must be struggling.

Isn't the normal price around £400.

The part is only just under £100 AFAIK
 
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Melfice

  Clio Sport 172
Madness..i had mine replaced with the dephaser pulley, oil change and spark plugs for £300.

Buy it belt yourself and take it to a good garage!
 
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bigrich690

i'm doing mine myself, granted i'm only changing the cambelt and not the pulleys, but for a cambelt and a ax belt it cost me 36 squids on the dot and the crankshaft tool kit cost me 47.50 from bennetts that includes delivery and me and my old man reacon its gonna take abot 5-6hours, thatsabout 2hours taking all the bumpers and arch linings and stuff out and jacking engine, then an hour or so taking ax belt and kit off to swap belt and then a few hours putting everything back, seriously, they having your pants down at that price, tell them where to stick it and go to a different garage, read my thread at bottom this guy says his mate will do it for 250 and he's a renault technician http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=453336
 
Mike_182

Mike_182

  Better than yours. C*nt.
Don't do it yourself if you haven't done anything like this before. The pulleys/vct system isn't 'locked' so it's very easy to bend some valves by saving yourself a small amount over going to someone who can do it.

JMS are great - go there. Most impressed! Other than that, any of the specialists are fine. You've got to jack the engine up off it's mounts and allsorts, and I'm sorry but that's a bit too far for me to mess with.
 
Bluebeard

Bluebeard

ClioSport Moderator
  Whichever has fuel
bigrich690 said:
i'm doing mine myself, granted i'm only changing the cambelt and not the pulleys, but for a cambelt and a ax belt it cost me 36 squids on the dot and the crankshaft tool kit cost me 47.50 from bennetts that includes delivery and me and my old man reacon its gonna take abot 5-6hours, thatsabout 2hours taking all the bumpers and arch linings and stuff out and jacking engine, then an hour or so taking ax belt and kit off to swap belt and then a few hours putting everything back, seriously, they having your pants down at that price, tell them where to stick it and go to a different garage, read my thread at bottom this guy says his mate will do it for 250 and he's a renault technician http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=453336
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I personally can't see the point in doing all what you're doing and not fitting the entire kit :S

To buy all the parts from Renault costs just under £200 iirc.... So how's your mate going to do it for £250??
 
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Andyman

  Ph1
Amazing how Renault dealers vary in price.

I got mine done for £750 from my local R/dealer INCLUDING water pump, and dephaser pulley.
 
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Icarus83

  Freetrack&Monaco 172
Craigus said:
Wow, that is ridiculous, that garage must be struggling.

Isn't the normal price around £400.

The part is only just under £100 AFAIK
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I was quoted £400 for belts at Renault and then £400 for the rest of the service, inc. filters, fluids etc.....

AFAIK the stealership way of doing the work is to strip down the front end of the car to get to it, hence about 6 hours work (when it can be done without apparently). They told me they'd need the car for a day and a half too.......yeah right, going to get my belts done at a local specialist instead!

Rob
 
J

-J-

  RS2'ed 172 Cup
Renault Watford Quoted me £1300.00 for Cam Belt Kit, Aux Belt kit, Rocker Cover Gasket resealing and Dephser.

I Called Rentech whilst still sat at the booking in desk in the showroom and booked in with them.
 
LiquidRich

LiquidRich

ClioSport Club Member
  LY R27
Our 182 is due for a cambelt next June but I would prefer to get it done now, I'm really not sure who to use tbh.

I did get a laugh earlier ringing round for a price on a second service for the 197, Sutton park in Rugby wanted £308 inc VAT lol.
 
Bazzon

Bazzon

  B/G 182 + PH1 Track
richandgem said:
Our 182 is due for a cambelt next June but I would prefer to get it done now, I'm really not sure who to use tbh.

I did get a laugh earlier ringing round for a price on a second service for the 197, Sutton park in Rugby wanted £308 inc VAT lol.
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Your not far from Fred, hes bases just outside the NEC in brum now IIRC.

BTM preformance is his company.

Good lad who does good work :D
 
LiquidRich

LiquidRich

ClioSport Club Member
  LY R27
Bazzon said:
Your not far from Fred, hes bases just outside the NEC in brum now IIRC.

BTM preformance is his company.

Good lad who does good work :D
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Will he be able to stamp my service book? its just that imo unless you get it stamped, and by a reputable firm you are knoking £500 off the price of your car if you come to sell it :(
 
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alex-avfc

  120d M Sport
I must be missing something here, but why would you go to Renault, when theres plenty of specialists (on here or not) that are sure to be cheaper and probably better to deal with than going to a dealer?
 
Bazzon

Bazzon

  B/G 182 + PH1 Track
richandgem said:
Will he be able to stamp my service book? its just that imo unless you get it stamped, and by a reputable firm you are knoking £500 off the price of your car if you come to sell it :(
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Im sure i read/or he said to me he had a stamp.

Sure you can drop him a email, or give him a call, he will confirm.
 
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alex-avfc

  120d M Sport
Fred definetely does have a stamp, stamped my book after doing the belts. It looks quite cool on your service book... "BTM Performance" lol
 
Poopensharten

Poopensharten

ClioSport Club Member
  Golf R
I was £550 for a full service and the cambelt and all tensioners/aux belts aswell.

He done it in 12 hours which i was damn impressed about
 
happycallis

happycallis

  03 clio 172
Timmmah, pm Tom@JMS and he will qoute you then. I know he is changing the website at the moment so that could be the reason its not working.
 
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Andyman

  Ph1
alex-avfc said:
I must be missing something here, but why would you go to Renault, when theres plenty of specialists (on here or not) that are sure to be cheaper and probably better to deal with than going to a dealer?
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In my case because the nearest specialist was roughly a 300 mile round trip away and the difference was only 50 quid iirc. Add the petrol into the equasion and time off work, it would have cost me more going to a specialist so simply wasnt worth it.

Some Renault garages can be pretty reasonable, some are very over priced. Like anything, shop about and do the maths
 
Gaz_

Gaz_

ClioSport Club Member
  Extreme mode
Bit far for you, but search Birchdown, never seen a bad word against them, top notch service!!
 
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bigrich690

I ain't got the money to take it to a specialist, plus my old mans done loads of cambelt before and we gone through the whole proccess that is explained on the CS guide and he looked and said lets do it this weekend, so he's confident plus i've ordered all the tools for changing the cambelt, all i can say is i'll document the whole thing and post it on here, well if it goes right lol but i'm confident with alot of patience we'll get through this, i wouldn't dare do this if my dad had any doubts so i suppose i was running my mouth a bit saying do it yourself soz :dapprove:
 
Tom@JMS

Tom@JMS

timmmah said:
All I get when I go to that site is a black screen saying Welcome to JMS tuning.

Waited like 5 mins and reloaded and tried it on 2 PC's. WTF.
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Cheers for all the comments boys :)

^^ Keep trying mate, it will work if you have an up to date version of flash, however I am working on a HTML version for you specials ;)
 
Gary172cup

Gary172cup

  arctic 182 ff
mechanic will be on no more than a tenner an hour no doubt and the dealers will be charging anything from £55 to £80 an hour,robbing ******** specialist is the way forward.
 
Mike_182

Mike_182

  Better than yours. C*nt.
Tom@JMS said:
Cheers for all the comments boys :)

^^ Keep trying mate, it will work if you have an up to date version of flash, however I am working on a HTML version for you specials ;)
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Specials. Pffft.

Can you open your site in your iPhone? :clown:
 
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