Garage rip off

[Lons]

Daughter smashed the doormirror and casing on her fiesta #-o.... I cringe at the number of scrapes on the 2 year old car she's had from new :roll: - but that's another story and I won't get into the women driver thing (hammer).

Anyway it's a standard electric type with built in indicator flasher and a clip on cover which was undamaged and reusable. She got a couple of estimates, the cheapest of which was £175 fitted :shock:

Bought one brand new from a ford parts dealer on ebay, delivered in 2 days, for total £46 including a primed cover. Fitted it at the weekend and it took me all of 30 minutes including a tea break :roll:
Bearing in mind I've never fitted one previously and no manual or instructions, I recon a mechanic could do it in 10 minutes - what a bl**dy rip off :?

Bob

 

[flanajb]

Think yourself lucky. You could have a freelander that's just had to have a £1200 replacement clutch, and has just blown the turbo :-(

 

[Harbo]

The turbo on my wife's Golf cost £1.1k!

Rod

 

[Dibs-h]

The turbo on my wife's Golf cost £1.1k!

Rod

Wow - that's bloody expensive. I had a VW\Audi turbo (their almost all VNT - Variable Nozzle "something" these days) factory rebuild for around £350 and even if I had paid some to fit it (and get the original one off) I don't think it would have added more than another £250-£300 (even plus VAT on to of the labour).

Dibs

 

[Jonzjob]

A door mirror for my Citroën Grand C4 Picaso was 450€ when some clown tried to pass as I indicated and changed lanes. I was doing 50kph in a 50 limit. I have no idea what speed he was doing, but he finished up paying for 1/2 of it!

 

[Woodchips2]

Daughter smashed the doormirror and casing on her fiesta #-o.... I cringe at the number of scrapes on the 2 year old car she's had from new :roll: - but that's another story and I won't get into the women driver thing (hammer).

Anyway it's a standard electric type with built in indicator flasher and a clip on cover which was undamaged and reusable. She got a couple of estimates, the cheapest of which was £175 fitted :shock:

Bought one brand new from a ford parts dealer on ebay, delivered in 2 days, for total £46 including a primed cover. Fitted it at the weekend and it took me all of 30 minutes including a tea break :roll:
Bearing in mind I've never fitted one previously and no manual or instructions, I recon a mechanic could do it in 10 minutes - what a bl**dy rip off :?

Bob

Well done Bob, you just never realised that your time is worth £774 per hour :lol: :lol:
Regards Keith

 

[Lons]

Well done Bob, you just never realised that your time is worth £774 per hour :lol: :lol:
Regards Keith

Yebbut - all I got was "ta muchly dad" and a kiss on the cheek!

She's under dire warning not to be so careless again (hammer) As if that will make a happerth difference :roll:

Bob

 

[woodbloke]

The turbo on my wife's Golf cost £1.1k!

Rod

Not surprised at that Rod. I had a couple of Golf MkI bangers years ago and even then spare parts were astronomic..."German" I was told :roll:..."buy Ford if you want cheap bits" - Rob

 

[Dodge]

This confirms again why I drive a Defender! - Replacement wing mirror £8 plus VAT (Link Below to confirm) and fitted in about 5 mins if necessary :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

http://www.paddockspares.com/mtc5217-do ... -type.html

 

[whiskywill]

I once had a Mitsubishi Colt with an intermittently faulty sensor in the distributor. A replacement sensor wasn't available and a reconditioned distributor cost £790, plus fitting, and that was 12 years ago.

 

[Lons]

This confirms again why I drive a Defender!

WOW - My daughter could do some serious damage with a defender #-o I just wouldn't advise anyone to park near her :lol: