I have just been quoted £369 inc at a local main dealer to replace the cam belt and water pump. Apparently this is a special offer which dealers are offering at the moment. Is this a good deal?

Yea sounds belting. My SE had it done a few months before I bought it and invoice was near £700 iirc. Think it may have been serviced also but still quite a hefty price.

Yep sounds good to me!

Looking promising

That's not a "special offer" as such. That's just Skoda's new fixed price maintenance that dealers can sign up to so that all the dealers have a transparent charging policy etc.

Still a good price though.

Phil

Its a standard price nowadays,on my TFSI i had my belt,tensioner etc & water pump & aux drivebelt & 1 litre of coolant & the price was £349.00p the parts & labour are covered for 2 years.(mine was slightly cheaper as they owed me £50 off my next job as goodwill for a previous job)Its £299 without the water pump & coolant.

I have just been quoted £369 inc at a local main dealer to replace the cam belt and water pump. Apparently this is a special offer which dealers are offering at the moment. Is this a good deal?

It's nearly full price - mine was about £380 before discount

Yea sounds belting. My SE had it done a few months before I bought it and invoice was near £700 iirc. Think it may have been serviced also but still quite a hefty price.

I don't know what you had done but that's clearly the cost of the cambelt plus a pretty hefty service.

Plenty of cheaper offers around at least in the past - Google < skoda fabia cambelt change cost > and check out the numerous topics that appear.

Mine was £308 in dec at my local garage. That including fittings new coolant expansion tank for me (I had bought that separately) and Bosch aero twin wipers on the front I was very pleased with that price.

From memory £210 at an indy was about the best I managed, the parts bill is over a ton even with discount (inc pump/coolant) and it's a few hours work.

Local Indy quoted me £410 for cambelt, water pump and full service

Unit 18 was £300 iirc last time, all inc. top service too.

Sounds about right.

however, you can do it cheaper. if you know a garage well you could supply the bits yourself and get them to do the work cash in hand. go for a small privet garage owned and run by 1 bloke who has an assistant monkey. more likely to do it.

I'm pretty close to a garage i've been going to since i owned my golf. got myself a genuine cambelt kit off ebay for £80, water pump for £40 (make sure its a good make) and then paid him £150 to fit it.

As Pikachu24 said, I got a local garage to get the bits, got the vat back on them through a friends business and paid cash for fitting came to about £200 in the end

J.E

Sounds about right.

however, you can do it cheaper. if you know a garage well you could supply the bits yourself and get them to do the work cash in hand. go for a small privet garage owned and run by 1 bloke who has an assistant monkey. more likely to do it.

I'm pretty close to a garage i've been going to since i owned my golf. got myself a genuine cambelt kit off ebay for £80, water pump for £40 (make sure its a good make) and then paid him £150 to fit it.

I don't want to pee in your cornflakes but you paid £270+VAT (£300 inc VAT only on the labour only as the parts were from eBay) for a job that most small independent garages charge £200ish inc. VAT for? That doesn't seem like such a great deal as even the dealer can usually be haggled down to £299 using offers/price match/discount for genuine parts and a warranty that includes refitting new parts if they're defective.

Lol. Facepalm

Just had timing belt kit,water pump,aux belt done parts and labour £225 at a trusted garage got it done on monday but yesterday had to top up coolant,the coolant warning light came on must have been a wee bit of air in the system the boss himself did the job,the skoda dealer that did the belt kit before wanted £300 but it was not local to me.is there a problem with the expansion tanks on the fabia vrs td?

Edited 26 January, 201313 yr by Joe41

Probably just an airlock, keep an eye on the level over the next few days.