Drop Link and Tracking Rods

[zogzog60]

Just been off the phone with a couple of garages, main dealer wanted to charge me 305.11 to fit one new drop link and both tracking rods for my 1.2 clio. Told them where to go, and phoned up a local garage who ive dealt with before who told me that he would struggle to charge that to rebuild the car and renault are charging around £90 per hour labour. Anyone with any experience confirm/deny whats happening here, as I was under the impression that it would be £10 tops for drop links and tracking rods werent that dear either!

 

[theduck]

not sure about the rods but when i did drop link on my clio it was about £6 from a local motor factors. Took me about an hour to fit o ) and I am rubbish and what was left of the old one was seized

 

[zogzog60]

Thats what i thought, Ive got my car back from parks now and I'm taking it to a local guy, he gave me a much more reasonable price, around £25! Well for the drop link, he said he would have a look at the tracking rods, but he doubted they needed changing!

 

[theduck]

what makes you think they need doing?

 

[zogzog60]

Well parks told me! Lol, but in all serious I thought the tracking was out, so when I got a new tyre fitted the guy did it for me. To be honest it never really made a difference, the car still was out! We'll see how it goes though!