Timing Belt

**VIPERONE** · 20-10-2006, 09:43

I paid for the belt and changed the cambelt myself.. its not the hardest of jobs tbh.

a days work at most

**BristolSam16v** · 20-10-2006, 10:18

Yeah sorry I meant its not much for tha actually cambelt, didn't mean including labour :p

**Chris H** · 20-10-2006, 11:01

normal belt price is about 18 quid, on ebay they come up a lot cheaper new though.

**dan 16v** · 20-10-2006, 13:14

Originally Posted by gunnergibson

I paid for the belt and changed the cambelt myself.. its not the hardest of jobs tbh.

a days work at most

well of course i would of rather done mine than pay a garage but i dont have anywhere to work on my car living in a flat and i have near to NO tools or mates to give me hand around here :(

**VIPERONE** · 20-10-2006, 13:27

Originally Posted by dan 16v

Originally Posted by gunnergibson

I paid for the belt and changed the cambelt myself.. its not the hardest of jobs tbh.

a days work at most

well of course i would of rather done mine than pay a garage but i dont have anywhere to work on my car living in a flat and i have near to NO tools or mates to give me hand around here :(

lol

**nyk** · 20-10-2006, 13:30

Thats not a bad price what you paid really. My friend paid over 500 for his to be done at Renault.

**Lunner** · 21-10-2006, 09:44

Originally Posted by dan 16v

mine cost £300 to do! They also found out when renault last did it 5 years ago that they didnt replace the pre tensioner as the bearings where f**ked!That took the garage an age to change and bumped the price up :(

Can't understand how the bearings on teh tensioner being ****ed woudl make it harder to remove

I'd always change the tensioners when i do the belt, on the subject mien si coming off again today for me to sort my oil leak

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