Excessive Garage Bill?

My local garage has just fitted a new master brake cylinder to my '84
Rangie, and is asking £545 for the work. The main dealer tells me the part
is approx £130 after vat - even allowing for labour and profit, does the
garage bill seem excessive?

Any advice much appreciated.

Rob

Brake masters can be one real long and nasty job.

The time and trouble come in when they try to bleed the wheel cylinders.

Some are easy, most are trouble. I live in the rust belt in Canada and
on a mid 80's vehicle, I expect to have to change the wheel cylinders in
order to bleed the brakes, then the line going to the cylinder is also
rotten, so a new line is needed, then the fitting for the flex tube
won't come off, oops, need a new hose, crap the other end just twisted
off, now I need a line all the way up to the front, etc....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Rob wrote:
>
> My local garage has just fitted a new master brake cylinder to my '84
> Rangie, and is asking £545 for the work. The main dealer tells me the part
> is approx £130 after vat - even allowing for labour and profit, does the
> garage bill seem excessive?
>
> Any advice much appreciated.
>
> Rob

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> My local garage has just fitted a new master brake cylinder to my '84
> Rangie, and is asking £545 for the work. The main dealer tells me the part
> is approx £130 after vat - even allowing for labour and profit, does the
> garage bill seem excessive?
>
> Any advice much appreciated.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>

Did they replace any lines?
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