Is my van repair bill too much?
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the price is about right a mondeo fuel pump is over a thousand punds for a new one and to recondition it about £900 i know this through experiance and my connections with the motor trade i work for a company that trains apprentices and have been in the motor trade for neaey 25 years also the ford dealer has master technicians that do a lot of training and qualifications they are specifically trained to for the repairs on your vehicle the price might seem high but if you take it to a bodge it and scarper garage and they get it wrong a new engine will cost more let the ford guys do it and you get a warrenty too which the back st garage wont offer
try another dealer. sounds steep to me
they saw u comming forget them put on a new pump shuld run about $ 100 installed
yOU GOTTA GET A SECOND OPINION! I WAS ripped off once bigtime! still hold a grudge! do you not know of any good fred in the shed type mechanics? you dont pay vat etc.
i cooked my engine 2.0 lit 16v ford, fred in shed 500.00, 3 yrs ago, still runs fine!
ps ford labour bills mega expense!
unfortunetaly fords suck. i have one and they're always breaking down. a mechanic once told me that they wouldn't even buy one for pieces.
Take it to another garage, not a main dealer, look in yellow pages. A fuel pump is less than £100, and timing belts take time, but depend on type of engine. Remember main dealers charge up to £100 per hour
actually that sounds about right
the zafira pump is a grand i know !
and thats no fitting ect
thats if its a diesel it sounds like it
petrol a different case
yeah if its a dci it can get really expensive as there are few people with test beds (really expensive) to do the work
i surgest ya buy a peugeot expert next time
lot more reliable
dont go wrong as much
Main dealer franchises are always costlier than anywhere else for labour charges, but in saying that they also have a fixed time allocated for each job.
Try ringing another ford dealership to see what they would charge for the same job, ask for the time allocation listed for the job then check it against your bill when you get it, if your still not happy or the labour cost comes to more time than is listed, approach them about it, if they take longer to do the job than is quoted refuse to pay the excess labour cost, their staffs ineptitude is not your responsibility.
The theory behind having timed repairs is so that when you take it to the main dealer they should have the correct tools to do it within the time frame, whereas joe bloggs has to fathom his way round and make use of other tools not necessarily the right tools and usually the long way round of doing it,theoretically his bill will be as high or higher than the main dealers, it doesn't always work this way but that is the theory behind the solution.
a decent diesel specialist should overhaul a pump for about £350 with removal/re-fit labour on top.
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