How many hours labour should a cam and aux belt change take?

[Snails]

I took my car in at 8am this morning for a cam and aux belt change, i just called a minute ago (5pm) to find out if it was done and was told they need it until tomorrow. How many hours, if done correctly, should it take?

 

[NWPerformance]

Should take around 5 hours

 

[Mike_182]

As above really!

 

[Fred@BTM]

official "book" time from memory is 7hours

 

[jack_davey]

yeah, but you dont know what time they started it, the book time is 5 hours, but that is a target time, not an average or guaranteed time. I would rather it took a bit longer and they made sure the timing was 100% correct!
I did my first one a couple weeks ago, I took my time and in total (including tea breaks and lunch and dinner etc) it took me about 11 hours, but that was start to finish and I really took my time to avoid making any mistakes.

 

[Snails]

I only asked as apparently they were 'half way through'.

 

[jack_davey]

they've just probably realised they need the genuine renault tools!

 

[Alastair.]

their apprentice has probly timed it up wrong for you and bent your valves, now they are panicing so keeping it over night and tell you the bad news in the morning.

 

[SBV116]

lol, 5 hours. Although, a bloke we know asked if he could have some advise the other day to do one....... We know him and said don't get involved!

He rang up, started it at 4PM, took him until 4AM the next morning, and he still had the undertray and wing liner to do! PMSL!

 

[bmh.01]

Well having never done one before and on my drive it took me from 10am to 5pm not rushing and stopping for lunch. So i'd expect a half decent garage to easily be able to do it in that time with a ramp.

 

[K-Tec Racing]

about 4 hrs

 

[Fred@BTM]

^dealership book time?

 

[Mike@Rentech]

5.2 hours book time.
Have seen some people take a whole day to do them WTF!!

 

[Fred@BTM]

there you go!

what's down for 7hours? something is, clutch?

 

[Mike@Rentech]

yeah clutch is 6.8 if I remember correctly.
I have all the repair times at work, its also on autodata as well.