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kruder

How Much For Timing Belt Change?

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kruder

How much should you expect to pay for a timing belt change?? the local garage has quoted me 250- 300 quid, which, to me seems like a hell of a lot. I know its an essential as ive only recently bought this one and have no idea when the belt was last changed.

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EdCherry

Why dont you give it a go yourself, its a pretty simple job on an 8v.

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kruder
Why dont you give it yourself, its a pretty simple job on an 8v.

 

 

ive never done it before and i have no access to tools etc where i am at the mo..

Id rather let someone who knows what they're doing do it rather than me making a mess of it.

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EdCherry

Fair enough, id say your quote is a bit on the expensive side, id be looking to pay £200 maximum really with a new tensioner and water pump + aux belt.

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kruder

yep, i wasnt even expecting to pay 200..closer to the 100ish...do they do the water pump etc along with it everytime?

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EdCherry

Worthwhile doing the water pump at the same time, if it starts leaking or breaks you'll be kicking yourself as you replace the belt every time its untensioned.

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kruder

sweet,, cheers

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Miles

Normally a Garage would only change the Belt, Not the Tensioner or Water Pump, I must say thou on the 8v the tensioner's seem to last for years and even when they are worn out still work OK.

The parts thou would be around the £100.00 mark plus about 2 hours labour

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welshpug

seeing as you're looking at not far off £70 in parts trying to getting it done for £100 is taking the piss a bit :D

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kruder

didnt realise that, i only paid bout 130 to get an astra's belt changed

 

another wee question...this pug i just bought is registered as a 1.6 but the garage i bought it from said they thought that it had a 1.9 engine put in by the previous owner...it doesnt seem any different from the 1.6 that i had and doesnt look much different..it badly needs a service , which its getting in a couple of weeks time, that maybe why it doesnt feel any different...how can i tell if its a 1.9 or not?

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Tom Fenton

1.9 should have a 3/4" alloy spacer plate between the bottom of the block, and the sump. 1.9 should also have yellow injectors, 1.6 have blue.

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EdCherry

You could get a dial test indicator, sit it in one of the plug holes and measure the stroke of a piston but thats a bit of a faff and you'd be hard pushed/expensive to find one with enough travel.

 

No easy way to get the full picture as far as im aware unless your prepp'd to split the engine into parts and find which parts are from what engine.

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kruder

cheers for that...

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mikeyd

check the alloy tag by the alternator if it reads bd6 its a 1.9 if 180a or b6d[or b6 anything] its1600

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pug_ham
check the alloy tag by the alternator if it reads bd6 its a 1.9 if 180a or b6d[or b6 anything] its1600

It'll say D6B if its a 1.9 XU9JA but otherwise the codes are right.

 

Graham.

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kruder

alternators been changed and doesnt have anything on expt "halfords""

but checked and the injectors are yellow..so if thats right must be 1.9

will see if after a good service feels any better than my old 1.6

cheers for all your help

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