Clutches!

[gazwhittle]

why are clutches so dear, 4 garages round my area want around the £350 for doin my clutch! only paid £900 for the car so might aswel scrap it.

[KamRacing]

ask them for a labour only rate and get the parts yourself.

might save a few quid.

Or get a haynes manual and teach yourself :y:

[RedB]

why are clutches so dear, 4 garages round my area want around the £350 for doin my clutch! only paid £900 for the car so might aswel scrap it.

Source a Valeo clutch kit (eGhey etc.) and take it to them or shop around for other quotes from garages. Labour should be around 1 1/2 hours so price varies on how much the bastards charge.

Good luck dude :)

[immense]

I've been quoted £269.99 from Mr Clutch to have mine done, sucks!

[gazwhittle]

they have all sed its a minimum of 4 hours

[RedB]

they have all sed its a minimum of 4 hours

They sound like cowboys or just have pretty remedial skills with a tool kit mate lol.

Clutch kits cost around 80+ if you go with the above mentioned but it might be worth looking outside of the area a bit and comparing quotes there.

[RedB]

I've been quoted £269.99 from Mr Clutch to have mine done, sucks!

If thats all in using decent parts and not second hand refurb shiz then that aint too bad as the new clutch should last 40k+....if it aint abused :p

[gazwhittle]

ask them for a labour only rate and get the parts yourself.

might save a few quid.

Or get a haynes manual and teach yourself :y:

the 1.4 clutch kit you sell will it fit my exclusive 1.4?

[sanchez89]

its expensive because they have to take a fair bit of stuff of just to get to it. And a gearbox is heavy

[Sammy-Boy]

Why not get one from the scrappy and do it yourself using Haynes?

[Saxotim]

bollocks to it taking 4 hours at a garage thats just bull.

took me and my dad under 3 to do it on the road outside his house and that was goin steady and forgetting to put the starter motor wires back on etc.

[Danr]

Me and my mate did ours on the drive. I have the mechanical knowledge on par with a garden hedge :)

[kxhaz]

thats not that bad a price its not a small job lol we had to do one on a saab at work came to over a grand lol but thats dealerships for you

[steve_335]

Where i work, they say about 4 hours to do a clutch, its because of what you actually have to do. Take battery out, undo engine mounts, undo gearbox itself, take it out, not the lightest of things in the world, then take clutch out, put new one in and realign it and put it all back together, sometimes you have to drop subrame, undo lower arms etc. Lots of work involved, had one in and out in 90 mins before though. That was a ford though. Did flywheel and slave on focus today, was over a grand bill

[titchster]

New clutch - £80
The right clutch - Free swap

Free fitting from good friends - Priceless. :p

[Yates]

as said shouldnt take 4 hours, took me 5 to do mine when some mates done it, but that was because we chatted alot, had problems with 2 of the bolts not coming out, waited half hour for a mate to turn up with a blow torch to try get the bolts out, still couldnt, so got angle grinder on them, then went to b n q to get new bolts

one hell of a fuck around rolf

[KamRacing]

as said shouldnt take 4 hours, took me 5 to do mine when some mates done it, but that was because we chatted alot, had problems with 2 of the bolts not coming out, waited half hour for a mate to turn up with a blow torch to try get the bolts out, still couldnt, so got angle grinder on them, then went to b n q to get new bolts

one hell of a fuck around rolf

sounds like a lot of garages lmao

[louis_23]

mr clutch mate 260....

did a shit job of mine tho think my gear box fucked now cuz of them its making noises they dont admit it obviously. duno if you wanna take the risk with them.....:y:

[fast-boy]

bring it down to gloucester and i will fit it for £100 in my workshop

[darkslag72]

do it your self its easyish. lol

[grant_evans]

i asked the mechanic i go to last week about doing a clutch on my mates vts, he said it would be no more than £200, just ask round a few places.

[Nick_106]

I got a clutch fitted in my local town all in with valeo clutch for 160 all done! only took them 90mins!

[GreenSaxo]

yeah.. i did mine.. took bout 4 hours i think.. 2 of us doing it on axle stands.. the clutch is easy.. its taking everything else off thats the problem. rofl

[savo]

lol some of them garages are def takin the piss.
My clutch went last week, phoned about n every garage quoted between £120 n £140 just for the labour. Getting it done now for £100 labour by my da's mate.

Clutch went at the start of the year n my ex got an mot tester who does stuff in his spare time to fix it. Cost £60 4 the clutch and £60 to fit it and change the gearbox and engine oil :D.

[EDDIE_VTR]

Labour is expensive because the gearbox needs to be dropped to replace the clutch!

[vtrgurlie]

Iv just had a new clutch fitted, the lad wanted £200 and i thought that was expensive! garages can get clutches for about £60 and ther not that hard to fit! i did mine last time with the help of a few drunken friends,needles to say it took us a full day and night! dont pay stupid amount to get it fitted youl just be getting riped off!!:P