It often ended up costing me more to do it myself – especially factoring in my time and tools I had to buy.
At least you’d do it right, though, unlike some HS dropout mechanic’s assistant.[/quote]
Funny you should mention that…..Because about 50k miles ago, I bought the entire timing belt package (belts, water pump, t-stat,etc)..Then I took the parts over to the stealer that at the time had a coupon and was willing to do the labor for about $750-800 since I was in a hurry back then.
Now that I have my front disassembled and can see everything…it appears, they left the old water pump, timing belt roller and tensioner, and idle pulley..I know because the ones currently on my car still have the Audi logo on it, and the ones I bought years ago were all aftermarket.. So someone on the stealer basically charged me labor for work they didn’t do AND kept my parts that I bought…. Of course I didn’t notice because one can’t tell without taking the front off to look. And for them, if things did break, they already stated “customer parts: no warranty”.
Oh, and also, things they were suppose to replace under warranty, they only did a 1/2 ass job… I had a few vacuum lines that were cracking that I asked them to replace under warranty. Since the vacuum lines were so hard to access without taking the front off, the previous tech cut the old vacuum lines and spliced in new vacuum lines only in the locations that I could see them when the engine bay is open. So from the top, it looked like the replaced the vacuum lines when they didn’t…. Nice….
