Service in 2000 miles, 1.8gti-t

[kcolevol]

Its time for service again and its the big one .......... cam belt!!  Anyone know how much the dealers charge for this complete service or anyone had it done by a good quality garage? Aint taking any chances of this!!  Im hoping its no more thath £350!!! Am i being nieve?

[richw911]

Its time for service again and its the big one .......... cam belt!!  Anyone know how much the dealers charge for this complete service or anyone had it done by a good quality garage? Aint taking any chances of this!!  Im hoping its no more thath £350!!! Am i being nieve?

Yeah £350 sounds about right TBH That should include the tensioner aswell.

You may also want to look at doing the water pump at the same time as thay fail for a pass time and you will have to re do the cam belt if it go's 
 
GOLF mkIV is now recommended to make the change at 4 years or 60k miles BTW.

[GTi-Matt]

£250 IIRC but tehn this is the dealers so complete service inc cambelt water pump around the £400 mark

maybe wrong tho!!

[kcolevol]

£400 sounds good with the water pump, ill get saving lol!! I hate spending oney and getting nothing aout of it but then again, it i dont, ££££'s will come from my account lol.  Cheers guys.

[richw911]

£400 sounds good with the water pump, ill get saving lol!! I hate spending oney and getting nothing aout of it but then again, it i dont, ££££'s will come from my account lol.  Cheers guys.

Yeah thats dealer prices for you 
You could always get a local garage to do it using genuine parts? Tho if anything went wrong who would you blame?

At least at the dealers you have a guarantee and thay are doing them every day!!

Pay the extra IMO

As you say pay the money now so you dont need a engine rebuild later 

[GTi-Matt]

or it would be cheaper you buying the parts yourself and then giving a garage money to fit them, it just depends if u want genuine vw parts and the warranty that (touch wood it doesnt) go wrong least with the dealers you have that garantee

[GTi-Matt]

were saying the same thing here just in a diiferent way!!!!

[richw911]

were saying the same thing here just in a diiferent way!!!!

lol

[kcolevol]

Yeah, the guarantee sounds the best route!! Aint no way im spending money for stuff to go wrong!! Im not going back to my Renault 5 GT Turbo days lol.

[dai-cymru]

an independent garage will do them just ask them to source genuine parts, you will still get the warranty then. thats what i do quite capable of doing them myself just like to have a warranty. although to do my engine swap i might leave mine go, then if it snaps, oh well love it has to be changed now. it's done 106k with no hint of a belt change!!!