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Offline Steve_PD

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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #10 on: 07 February 2010, 13:56 »
AVS its the 'sports' bushes you also want 2 nuts and bolts
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Offline tom-gardiner

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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #11 on: 07 February 2010, 15:29 »
having mine do on wednesday, local garage quoted £140
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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #12 on: 07 February 2010, 15:45 »
book time for them is 4.2hours but can easily be done in under an hour ,simple job to do really my work charges 2.5hours for fitting them which is undercutting alot of dealers around us
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Offline Rhyso

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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #13 on: 07 February 2010, 15:56 »
Quote from: johnaldinho89 on 07 February 2010, 15:45
book time for them is 4.2hours but can easily be done in under an hour ,simple job to do really my work charges 2.5hours for fitting them which is undercutting alot of dealers around us

interesting as my local VW dealer's book time is 1.5 hours

I paid about £140 all in from them a couple of years back
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Offline M4VERICK

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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #14 on: 07 February 2010, 17:30 »
Ive just had a service on my 1.8 20v and i had new rear axle bushes.  Parts wise they came to £35.05.
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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #15 on: 07 February 2010, 17:42 »
Yeah the parts dont seem to cost that much, its finding a good garage at a reasonable hourly rate thats not going to charge a full days labor if it takes hours longer getting them out.....
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Offline M4VERICK

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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #16 on: 07 February 2010, 17:54 »
Well, i had a service so, Oil and Filter, Pollen Filter, car checked inc brakes cleaned and adjusted and rear axle bushes changed + all the environmental disposal stuff came to £197 at a BOSCH garage..... quite reasonable i thought???
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Offline GOLF20VTURBO

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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #17 on: 07 February 2010, 18:01 »
Well thats not to bad at all for the money. I will be on the phone all morning tomorrow finding out the costs and when they can fit her in.
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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #18 on: 07 February 2010, 18:44 »
did mine myself, cost me a few hours of my life  :cool:
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Offline sharpey

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Re: Rear axle bushes
« Reply #19 on: 07 February 2010, 18:53 »
did mine myself to not a bad job at all . cut the rubber out the chisled the outer metal. used a proper vw tool to insert them again.

took me 1 hour 30mins in total its a axel out jobby makes life a hell of a lot easyer.

if u wer from near me id do um for 80quid for ya.  :smiley:
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