help In shock over garage price

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In my opinion it is yours and the garages fault
If they have worked on landys they will know nothing is sraight forward
A top and bottom price should have been agreed and stuck to before the work
and aphone call if somthing went tits up
 
I agree that it was partly us, I did not take the landy in, my dad did. I always ask for a figure or as for a call if it is getting difficult on any job I take to the garage, he did'nt.

They took the price for making the tool off the bill, reckon the tool is a piece of tube or bar machined to the size of the outer.

Thanks for all the advice, its my dads 109 that I built for him, he is getting a bit indecisive when he does anything so really I should have taken it in.

Well after 8 years I now have to find a new local garage....
 
finnety said:
I agree that it was partly us, I did not take the landy in, my dad did. I always ask for a figure or as for a call if it is getting difficult on any job I take to the garage, he did'nt.

They took the price for making the tool off the bill, reckon the tool is a piece of tube or bar machined to the size of the outer.

Thanks for all the advice, its my dads 109 that I built for him, he is getting a bit indecisive when he does anything so really I should have taken it in.

Well after 8 years I now have to find a new local garage....
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Its a shame mate but it happens, theres no benefit for loyalty these days, my dad and uncle have been using the same garage for years, thing is they didnt realise that the prices were spiraling, I used this "good" garage once and they were CRAP, didnt do all the work I asked them to which was evident 1 month later when it failed the MOT (Mitsibushi) when I saw the work I felt totally stitched, too late to grumble by then.
They did stick to the price but no good if the works crap, now its back to me doing it all and happy with my own work..now its a landy and easy too...so far :D
 
ratty said:
It's often worth finding out if a garage works on book time or actual time taken when asking about pricing up for a job.

Book time is the amount of time the manufacturer says it should take to replace said part. This is fine when parts are new but can take much longer when parts become old and seized.

Actual time means the actual amount of time it took for the garage to do the job. The book may say summit is a 10 minute job but it actually took the garage 10 hours to do it instead.

The beauty of menu pricing is that you know what the bill is going to be even before the job is started. The downside is that sometimes one of the mechanics may know a shortcut that can dramatically reduce the time required to do the job but you would still pay for the amount of time the book says.

One of our guys used to be able to change a clutch cable on a citroen xantia in around half an hour. The book time was 6 hours as allegedly the dash had to come out to do it.

The good thing with time taken pricing is that if someone knows a quicker way to do a job or has done it so many times it can be completed much quicker meaning that you save money. The bad side is that if a rusted bolt won't come out or has rounded off and it takes 3 hours to undo the one bolt, you pay for those 3 hours.
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I broke down in france in a xantia with a broken clutch cable, I changed it without removing the dash with a leatherman tool(desperation works)!
 
Glad you are sorted
If the garage man was ok about it you could use them again,

Its hard times evary one has to make a living and its geting harder nowadays

I feel ripped off eavery time i go to the supermarket
 
finnety said:
Hi, just in shock

I have a 2a and the shackle bushes needed to be replaced in the chassis, one was stuck.
I had new parabolics to put on and 2 new braded flexis,new ubolts, new shackle plates and shackle pins.
So I supplies all the parts.
The flexis were wrong so garage put new ends on and they had a hard time removing the bushes.
But the bill has come in today at over £900

Is this justified to
push out old bushes qty 2 even if they were hard in the bush had the bolt stuck in the middle so could not be extracted with tool going through middle.
fit new bushes to chassis (front only)
fit new springs (supplied by us)
all new bolts (supplied by us)
re-end flexi hoses
bleed brakes

£900?

What would the best plan of action be?
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The best plan of action would be to do the work yourself!
 
hoopfish said:
The best plan of action would be to do the work yourself!
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Well, its my dads landy that I restored for him in 2007

I did all the work

Perkins prima engine conversion
3 outriggers
Respray
quarter chassis
footwells
chassis epoxy painted

dad has not touched the mechanics since then so half my frustration was the fact that my dad had let it get to a stage where the chassis bush shackle bolt was rusted in.
Tried for a day to get the new suspension on but am moving house and have a beetle to restore so told dad to take to a garage and pay garage prices.

Diddnt expect the price to be so ridiculous as for the most of it I had got the rubber to give a little on the bush by welding a bar to the knackered bolt and using the heat generated to burn out the rubber.

At this point I put my back out scrabbling around in the dirt.

So, normally since the dawn of time I have done it myself :)
 
finnety said:
Well, its my dads landy that I restored for him in 2007

I did all the work

Perkins prima engine conversion
3 outriggers
Respray
quarter chassis
footwells
chassis epoxy painted

dad has not touched the mechanics since then so half my frustration was the fact that my dad had let it get to a stage where the chassis bush shackle bolt was rusted in.
Tried for a day to get the new suspension on but am moving house and have a beetle to restore so told dad to take to a garage and pay garage prices.

Diddnt expect the price to be so ridiculous as for the most of it I had got the rubber to give a little on the bush by welding a bar to the knackered bolt and using the heat generated to burn out the rubber.

At this point I put my back out scrabbling around in the dirt.

So, normally since the dawn of time I have done it myself :)
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I know what you meen mate, I some times feel like telling my old man to take his car to a garage. But i end up rolling about on the floor and i think I've used up all my favours at the MOT station
 
You need to find a new garage

The guy I use removed an engine from my XK8 stripped it to the block, stripped the replacement engine , bolted all the old parts to the new engine (V8) including replacing the cams , refitted it, took the gearbox out when we found out the timing disc was different and refitted it

Total bill £1000 labour

£900 for 2 bushes sounds a total p###take to me
 
This is why i stopped using garages when ever possible ,i was sick of feeling ripped off and theres always something else that apparently needs doing ,buy some half decent tools and tackle things yourself ,theres always plenty of how dos on most things ,i feel sick for you .
 
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