Average Price of fitting a rear axle?

[Denno09]

Hi just wont to no the average price to get a rear axle fitted. so not getting ripped off lol.
Cheers

[Denno09]

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[chris84]

if you already have the spare axle to fit on a garage should charge around £80, 2 hrs labour.

[xxo0pko0xx]

do it yourself if you have axle stands and quite strong :)

[Tontsy]

if you already have the spare axle to fit on a garage should charge around £80, 2 hrs labour.

id say 2 hours tops!...

give leave way if they decide to charge for a brake fluid change and bleed of the system...
if your going diss to disc, drum to drum there shouldnt be any problems!
if going drum to discs, they may want to be bastards because they need to re-lengthen brake pipes. but thats a 10 min job!

80, plus 20 for brake fluid and bleed, sounds fair to me.
thats what id charge anyway :p

but as said, and will get said ALOT, do it yourself if you have the time and patience.
2-3 man job could crack it in under an hour easy! whilst two hole it in place, another bolts it up, being sat in the boot...

[Denno09]

been qoted £120 is that to much?

[Tontsy]

been qoted £120 is that to much?

id get them to budge imo!
is that just the change over? 60 quid an hours work is alot tbh!

[xxo0pko0xx]

aye mate tell them ud take it to another garage they might move price then :y:

[Denno09]

its changing drums to discs gti rear axle i carnt do it my self dont no about mechanics lol

[Yellow_Saxo_Paul]

£100 i got charged for mine, 2 hours labour plus brake fluid

[Tontsy]

drum to discs...
so they will have to alter the pipes, as they need to feed through the balance valve. . . id say another 15-20 TOPS quid for that.

say, labour, fluid, bleed, alter pipes... 100-120 would be ok!

but its worth looking around!
still only a 2 hour job!

[Tontsy]

£100 i got charged for mine, 2 hours labour plus brake fluid

thats what im talking about! :y:

[Denno09]

thats the cheapest qote i got
would it be a day job?

[Tontsy]

thats the cheapest qote i got
would it be a day job?

day job? for a mechanic...2 hours,2 TOPS for everything!
took me, first time i did it, half hour to get the old one off, with the aid of another guy to bolt the new one in, half hour to bolt the new one up!

then fitting th pipes, and fluid, bleeding took the longest part!

[Denno09]

cheers it i should notice a difference with breaking and that

[Tontsy]

cheers it i should notice a difference with breaking and that

hmmm . . . i noticed a slight difference. dont forget 70% of it goes to the front! havnt tried it in the wet yet, so who knows...time will tell!

but im going for better brakes all around anywho later in time!

[Denno09]

I wasnt sure it could be done drum to dics convesion with a bit of reseach found out it could.
iv got a 106 GTI rear axle but its at standard hight i have the car lowerd at the mo 35m alround but in to mind wether to take it back to standard hight because the car rubs when i have people in the back and scraps when go over speed bumps lol. Plus more money to get it lowerd :panic:

[Denno09]

thanks for feed back cheers

[dorsetsaxo]

probably a good job to do your self just make notes how it comes out and reverse it putting new in, take your time and theres plenty of how toos to bleed systems back up, time to learn my freind and youll save your self a lot of money in long run, as very basic cars really, you can buy bleed kits from halfords cheap as im sure youll wanna upgrade fronts soon, its a bit of kit youll uses over and over and very handy to have on shelf, so give it a go and at worst set aside a day to do it

[Denno09]

Yes i will be upgrading my front breaks shortly how do i go about doing this?

[fastroadkid69]

denno 09, where did you go to get this done in chesterfield? has i need my beam changing soon.