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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Just picked her up from VX.

The bill makes interesting reading.

Vx water pump...........................£119.00 plus VAT
Vx Cambelt plus tensioner roller...£138.00 plus VAT
Anti-freeze. (quantity 4) ................£18.00 plus VAT

Total £275.00 plus VAT at 20%.....which makes £33O....which is exactly what I paid by credit card.

So Labour is FREE at certain Vx dealers it seems. (Usually £65 plus VAT for each hour)

Fair play to them though. They admitted that they'd made an "error" with their costs. But once they'd (incorrectly ) given me a quote there was no going back. The service manager told me that nobody WILL EVER get a genuine  Vx cambelt and water pump fitted  at this price again.

Good result I think. 

[ScaniaV8]

Lucky boy...now go out and buy a lottery ticket  :-)

[Marks DTM Calib]

They will have made a good profit as they have charged you top dollar for the parts!

[tunnie]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

[amba]

Good result and really does show how incompetant most VX dealers are ,although fair play to them by sticking to their quote.

Still think I will let Daz do mine again in future.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

Yes Agreed. But not a bad price for a dealer...

[tunnie]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

Yes Agreed. But not a bad price for a dealer...

Not bad, I'll give you that. But just goes to show the markup and profits they make!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

Yes. But that's not a proper Omega Mr Tunnie.

[Marks DTM Calib]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

Yes. But that's not a proper Omega Mr Tunnie.

I could do a V6 for less than 150 quid to (including water pump and antifreeze)

[TheBoy]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

Yes. But that's not a proper Omega Mr Tunnie.

I could do a V6 for less than 150 quid to (including water pump and antifreeze)

That reminds me, I have £80 worth of cambelt kit, water pump and antifreeze to go on TBE...  ...I must get around to doing that 

[Lazydocker]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

Yes. But that's not a proper Omega Mr Tunnie.

I could do a V6 for less than 150 quid to (including water pump and antifreeze)

That reminds me, I have £80 worth of cambelt kit, water pump and antifreeze to go on TBE...  ...I must get around to doing that 

End of the month?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

Yes. But that's not a proper Omega Mr Tunnie.

I could do a V6 for less than 150 quid to (including water pump and antifreeze)

As I'm not experienced enough to do the work myself I can't compete with those sort of prices. However, I still think that having somebody do the work for £330 using genuine Vx parts is not a bad deal... They even gave me a Vauxhall Agila 1.2 Club for three days too. It was shite.

[cleggy]

I am glad you're happy, but three guys on here would do a better job for a fraction of the price.
Never but never trust VX

[Shackeng]

ouch, even without labour I could do all that little lot for my 2.2 for less than £150 

Yes. But that's not a proper Omega Mr Tunnie.

I could do a V6 for less than 150 quid to (including water pump and antifreeze)

As I'm not experienced enough to do the work myself I can't compete with those sort of prices. However, I still think that having somebody do the work for £330 using genuine Vx parts is not a bad deal... They even gave me a Vauxhall Agila 1.2 Club for three days too. It was shite.

3 Days??? What did they do, make the parts?

[Andy B]

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3 Days??? What did they do, make the parts?

As said, it takes at least over night to allow the instant gasket to go off.