What do you guys think to this price as just been quoted it........

 

£350 for a cambelt, water pump and drive belt to be supplied and fitted?

With tensioner ?

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Sounds about right considering the hours of labour needed

Thanks, I shall go for this then  Indeed the cambelt kit comes with a new tensioner

 

I have been reading that the original water pump has plastic impellers that can fail and the new water pumps have metal impellers?

The last time I looked, the VAG pumps all had plastic impellers and only pattern pumps had metal. I fitted a pattern pump - no point in fitting the same old junk as was supplied by VAG.

 

rotodiesel.

The last time I looked, the VAG pumps all had plastic impellers and only pattern pumps had metal. I fitted a pattern pump - no point in fitting the same old junk as was supplied by VAG.

 

rotodiesel.

 

Thanks for that mate......I will make sure he gets a pattern part with metal impellers.

Don't get a pump with a metal impeller. Only the old pumps with a Durethan impeller had a problem. Take a look at http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/245632-teach-the-dealer/ for a full discussion. If you follow the link in post #32, you will see that the later PPS impellers look very like aluminium.

I have recently had a replacement water pump & timing belt kit fitted, I bought the beter quality pump offered by euro parts and that had a plastic impellor

I was advised against the metal impeller pump when i had my cambelt done as if the pump did fail its better to have plastic floating about than metal!

Until VAG invented the plastic impeller, water pumps would fail usually due to water seal degradation followed by bearing failure due to lubricant contamination. This has been the case for years, and VAG water pumps have the same seals and bearings as any other - but for the fact that they stupidly put them on the tight side of the drive belt, necessitating stronger bearings.

 

Why VAG introduced an additional failure mode to a component which usually needs changing in the lifetime of a vehicle is beyond me - maybe it was done for reasons of cheapness or lightness.

 

I've seen plenty of failed water pumps of all shapes and sizes, but only VAG can make the impeller fail - no others do. So, I buy replacement pumps elsewhere.

 

rotodiesel.

Thought I would give my local Skoda dealers a call and find out how much they would charge to do this job......£446.  So £96 more than my local little garage.  Is there any benefit from getting Skoda to do it other than the dealer stamp in the history book?

I would look into changing the 'damper' too.

I would look into changing the 'damper' too.

 

Is that expensive mate?

Is that expensive mate?

If its the bit im thinking of (we call it a plunger) its the bit that pushes the tensioner and actually 'supplies the tension' its definitely worth replacing seen it a couple times where they have been disturbed (have to be to replace tensioner) they then start over tensioning and snap the belt. Im not saying it happens all the time so please dont take just my word for it take a look into it but if it was mine would be worth doing it maybe the skoda dealer has included this into their price? (I would either include it in the price or advise the customer of it if i was a service advisor)

Oh and the one i did for a customer this thursday was £110 inc VAT for a 'plunger' thats a skoda part

Also just to confirm what people have said (this info from skoda themselves) water pumps started as plastic then after the problems they had of the impeller breaking up they changed to metal then they had complaints of the water pumps being noisy so they have gone back to the plastic but a very strong and durable plastic that can deal with the heat so no need to worry

The tensioner is the key part to change IMO this is the failure point and should be changed at the same time as the belt!!!

If your gonna do a job do it properly :-)