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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Godzilla on 21 May 2013, 16:29
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I needed my clutch fitting so I got a VR6 one for my 16v gearbox. There is a local garage and one of the blokes that works there worked for Audi for over 20 years. He said if I paid him cash he would do it as a private job. So I took my car down there the other night after 5pm and it was just him there. He fitted my clutch for me, drained the gearbox oil out and re-filled with new stuff, drained the coolant and replaced with new G12 or something it was called, put a load of new jubilee clips on my boost hoses as he was not happy with the ones already on there as some were a bit rusty, cleaned out the throttle body and a general good clean up around the engine bay. All I asked for was a clutch to be fitted that I supplied.....He supplied the gearbox oil, coolant, clips etc and fitted the clutch for a total of £150 cash, I thought that was a good deal? Plus I learnt a few things as I watched him do it all!
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Friends in the trade are gold dust.. :smiley:
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Got my lightened flywheel and clutch fitted for £100 :cool:
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Got my lightened flywheel and clutch fitted for £100 :cool:
But did you get a coolant flush, gearbox oil drained and both filled back up :tongue: :grin:
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I dropped my car off at a garage a week ago. He took out old gearbox, which I dropped of for re-con, put in new clutch kit, new clutch cable, put on re-con gearbox, new discs & pads all way round, new rear wheel bearings, new axle/beam bushes. The genuine OE one's, 4 new top mounts. Oh and put in new gear oil.
I got a quote off one garage?, he said £400 for the labour lol. So I gave it in to another garage who I always use, he done all the above for £250. He also made me new rear copper brake pipes, he said if you doing all that work, you may aswell put these in new too, and he said I won't chrsge for them.
Now that is cheap. Oh and the OE bushes are very hard to fit in than powerflex ones too.
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I dropped my car off at a garage a week ago. He took out old gearbox, which I dropped of for re-con, put in new clutch kit, new clutch cable, put on re-con gearbox, new discs & pads all way round, new rear wheel bearings, new axle/beam bushes. The genuine OE one's, 4 new top mounts. Oh and put in new gear oil.
I got a quote off one garage?, he said £400 for the labour lol. So I gave it in to another garage who I always use, he done all the above for £250. He also made me new rear copper brake pipes, he said if you doing all that work, you may aswell put these in new too, and he said I won't chrsge for them.
Now that is cheap. Oh and the OE bushes are very hard to fit in than powerflex ones too.
£250 for all that work is very good. Great knowing the right people :cool:
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Even better if you just do it yourself :wink:
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Sometimes I just love being a mechanic :smiley:
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Sometimes I just love being a mechanic :smiley:
Same. :grin:
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Would never call myself a mechanic but can certainly do all that type of work and will be doing so in the very near future!
Just for the cost of the materials! :wink:
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very good price! :cool:
i`m no mechanic either but i do all my work myself too, investing in some decent tools plays the best part in getting a job done.. and as len said, it`s just the cost of materials then :shocked: