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Timing Belt Replacement, How Much $? 850

posted by  Rule 308 on  Fri Jul 28 17:53 CST 2006
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Rocky Top's appraisal of the situation is a little closer to reality. Independents do not charge half of what the dealer does, not and stay in business they don't. My local dealer is at $115.00 while my shop bills at 75.00. List price on a belt, tensioner, tensioner pulley, and idler pulley is $410.00 plus labor. Job should pay 2.5 hours for a simple belt change and an additional.5 or so to change out the two pullies. In my shop you are looking at about $650.00 or so with tax, stuff a water pump on it and you are looking at closer to $900.00. If all things were equal the dealer would be charging another $40.00 per hour to bring the belt and pulley price up to about $770.00. Now as far as using your own parts on this job, I think that is foolish. I will use customer parts but I will offer no parts warranty on someone else's parts, how can you really. Now if your timing belt comes apart the shop owner is going to do everything he can to put the blame on the part and not the workmanship and you will then be an owner of a scattered motor. Let the man make the profit on the parts and provide you with a warranty on a rather critcal job.

Mark






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