Timing belt and water pump ballpark cost

[Telf964]

As above, need mine doing soon (2014MY 2.0TDI).

 

What are people paying at trusted indies vs Skoda dealers?

[ahenners]

Cambelt and Waterpump are listed as £499 on Skoda Simply Fixed pricing:

 

http://www.skoda.co.uk/finance-and-offers/service-and-maintenance/simply-fixed

[Stuart-h]

I payed bout the same at the garage I used. Its not a skoda dealer though!

[MarkyG82]

450 I paid from an indy.

[Loopylil]

£425 for me but it`ll cost a fortune to get here...

[Stuart-h]

If my experience is anything to go by, when the garage I use all the time, when they got the said cam belt kit and pump, the pump wernt the right type. A trip to skoda to get the right one!

[Gabbo]

I would ask a Skoda garage for a quote stating that you know it is a known problem on the O3.

Normally they are offering a 50% contribution towards to costs (so should be around 300gbp) providing you have a FSH.

This would probably be cheaper than an independant garage & you get the Skoda warrenty on the work done.

[Telf964]

I got a quote from a local VAG specialist of £295 +VAT so seems reasonable. Thanks for the replies.

[64VRS]

I paid £489 for both from a Skoda garage. 

[gasmant]

On 25/10/2018 at 09:52, Gabbo said:

I would ask a Skoda garage for a quote stating that you know it is a known problem on the O3.

Normally they are offering a 50% contribution towards to costs (so should be around 300gbp) providing you have a FSH.

This would probably be cheaper than an independant garage & you get the Skoda warrenty on the work done.

 

Hi Gabbo and all,

I have a problem with my 2014 O3 1.6 TDi. The heater use to be brilliant, now really poor. An Indy has suggested that the fault lies with the pump, that has a known issue. He suggested changing the pump and timing belt etc, which is due next year anyway. There are no other signs of a problem. Is this likely to be a fair diagnosis,or o the pump issue generate an overheating warning?

 

Also, I got this on the MOT, is this common?:

Advisory notice item(s):

• Emissions test unable to detect exhaust output, engine running too clean.

[Gabbo]

6 minutes ago, gasmant said:

 

Hi Gabbo and all,

I have a problem with my 2014 O3 1.6 TDi. The heater use to be brilliant, now really poor. An Indy has suggested that the fault lies with the pump, that has a known issue. He suggested changing the pump and timing belt etc, which is due next year anyway. There are no other signs of a problem. Is this likely to be a fair diagnosis,or o the pump issue generate an overheating warning?

 

Also, I got this on the MOT, is this common?:

Advisory notice item(s):

• Emissions test unable to detect exhaust output, engine running too clean.

I'm not sure about the 1.6tdi, the issue I was referring to is for the 2l diesel and causes overheating.

However on the forum there are quite a few people with leaking coolant pumps & heating problems.

 

With proper diagnostic tools you can read the temperatures within the heating system to see if it's no heat from the matrix or a problem with the valves in the HVAC system.

 

Regarding the mot adivisory, I'd imagine this is directed towards the garage who haven't connected the test equipment correctly, unless there's a leak in exhaust but they should have checked this.

[courty]

3 hours ago, gasmant said:

 

Also, I got this on the MOT, is this common?:

Advisory notice item(s):

• Emissions test unable to detect exhaust output, engine running too clean.

 

I’d be calling VOSA and asking them to recategorise your car as zero emissions. 

 

It could be another VAG emissions cheat just to stop

it emitting entirely 

Edited 27 October, 2018 by courty
Grammar police

[SuperbTWM]

1 hour ago, courty said:

 

I’d be calling VOSA and asking them to recategorise your car as zero emissions. 

 

It could be another VAG emissions cheat just to stop

it emitting entirely 

 

I think this is just to cover the garage or may have been a message on the test equipment as it is common for the reading to be zero on modern diesels. My 2.0 Superb did not register anything on the machine either

[courty]

6 hours ago, SuperbTWM said:

 

I think this is just to cover the garage or may have been a message on the test equipment as it is common for the reading to be zero on modern diesels. My 2.0 Superb did not register anything on the machine either

 

Defo a VAG cheat then if there are two cars it’s happened to 

 

Mine emitted on its MOT - so I’m safe thankfully; the environment isn’t though 

[WallMeerkat]

£300 from an indy, with the uprated VW pump and timing belt replaced.

 

The water pump is a known issue, especially on earlier 2013/4 1.6 tdis. You may or may not get any 'goodwill' from Skoda if you try, some report they do, others not as the car is now 4/5 years old.

[j1mg]

18 minutes ago, WallMeerkat said:

£300 from an indy, with the uprated VW pump and timing belt replaced.

 

The water pump is a known issue, especially on earlier 2013/4 1.6 tdis. You may or may not get any 'goodwill' from Skoda if you try, some report they do, others not as the car is now 4/5 years old.

You need a full Skoda history, otherwise they won't even bother filling out the paperwork.
Mine is in the Skoda garage right now having this exact thing done. £495 all in.

My indy quoted £515 for the same job as Skoda sell themselves parts cheaper than they do to others.

[j1mg]

Update:

In overnight as they broke the lamdba sensor when putting everything back together. So they've ordered another one, no charge to me obviously.
Got a courtesy Rapid for the night, it appears to have been named ironically...
Was actually £489, not £495.

[SuperbTWM]

2 hours ago, j1mg said:

Skoda sell themselves parts cheaper than they do to others.

 

Skoda actually subsidise the cost of the timing belt change. For example it might cost the dealer £650 to change timing belt and water pump so you pay the £500 fixed price and Skoda pay the rest to the dealer.

 

That's what the service department told me anyway as my goodwill gesture for a timing belt change was off the full price of the job and not the £500 fixed price 

[WallMeerkat]

I just got an email from Skoda reminding me that my timing belt would've been due (had the old water pump not already spat out all the coolant)

 

Their quotes:

 

[j1mg]

Just had an oil change and they advised me that there appeared to be a small leak from around the cam belt.

As I had this changed in November when the water pump failed, I wondered if this would be classed as a fitting error, or if it's on me?

As I really don't want to fork over another load of moeny for them to get back at the cam-belt.

Any advice?