Is my local dealer having a laugh ?

[S2central.net]

Just got quoted £970 for the 80k and timing belt service on the Allroad

Breakdown is £600 just for the timing belt work... Which is an alleged 5-6 hours

Blooming ridiculous !

I'll be shopping around for this work... Can't be arsed doing it myself as theres umpteen special tools required.

Is this a normal quote or is someone having a laugh - I don't normally deal with the stealers so I have no history with them.

I asked how much extra to change the thermostat at same time which totally phased them as I said I knew it was best to do that during the timing belt change.

This could ruin christmas !!!!!!

Cheers,

Paul

[Coxy]

The thing is most people will pay it as most Audi's a fleet cars and not privately owned.
I got quoted £85 and hour for them to change the fuel pump on my coupe, and they had to quote 3 hours as it wasn't something they did often so didn't know how long it would take to do!
In the end my mate did it for £20, and it took him about 40 minutes!

[PeteRR]

I phoned my local dealer to price up the replacement of my fuel lines the other week.

They said they wanted over £100 just to look what the job entailed and they also said it could possibly take 8 hrs+ at £120 per hour!
I said 'Er, no thanks!' or words to that effect. Absolute piss-take!

And the 'local specialist' has failed to phone me back for a price for the same job, despite me phoning them several times.....

[Corey]

And the 'local specialist' has failed to phone me back for a price for the same job, despite me phoning them several times.....

Should try some that are a bit further a field

[Al Wyn]

Can you reccomend anyone?????????????????????????????

[kninio]

why dont u buy the tools and change them by urself?

[PeteRR]

I can't really get the car high enough to do them myself, and don't really relish the idea in this weather anyway.

Corey has the right idea here maybe!

[Corey]

Can you reccomend anyone?????????????????????????????

Nope, I can't recommend anyone at all

others can though!!!

[Coxy]

Nope, I can't recommend anyone at all

others can though!!!

[4WheelDrifter]

Welcome to real Audi ownership Paul.
I'm sure you could do the oil change yourself, and save yourself ~£150.
I'm not sure about the cambelt change, you gotta love those V6s.

[robo]

, you gotta love those V6s.

I dont think that is V6.... is it 5 pots Paul?

[Corey]

allroad is either 6 or 8 pots

[robo]

allroad is either 6 or 8 pots

2.5 TDI???

[Corey]

2 banks of 3.

[Jon441cc]

Dont know if this helps but i helped a friend with a Timing belt change on a 2.8 V6 a few years ago and didnt have to use any of the special tools needed just a little bit of common sense and an 8ft piece of scaffold pole sorted it out in about 4 hours with two of us.
Not too sure what sort of configuration the V6 allroad engine has but must be similar