Quote for timing belt change for my MK7 Golf TDI $2500!
So I have 2 options for work on my VW TDI here in town. The dealer, and a well known German repair garage (one reccomended on this forum). The Garage is Werners Garage in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Now, I have worked with the garage for years with my older ALH TDI. They have always beat the dealers quotes and I have always trusted them to do excellent work.
My MK7 Golf TDI is at 105k on the clock. With the timing belt change interval coming up at 130k, I thought I would start asking what I would be looking at price wise to get this done. First call was to Werners Garage. The service guy who I did not recognize spouted out a quote of $2500. Shocked, I asked "why!?". He hung up on me. I called back asking for the manager and he convieniently said the manager was out. I asked how much parts and labor was and he said it was $1900 in parts, the rest was labor.
I then called he dealer who normally I would not trust to do good work on any TDI, just from the horror stories of others on this forum who have taken their TDI's to the VW dealers before and had very bad things happen. Personally I know a guy from work that brought his 2012 Golf TDI to another dealer in Indiana for a timing belt change and after the change he was driving it home and it literally had catastrophic engine failure on his drive home. The dealer then fought with him and in the end did not fix it and he was at a total loss with the car. Back to the plot at hand, the local VW dealer to me quoted me $940 to change the timing belt. This was parts, labor and tax. They said they do warrantly all work and parts they do work on. But again I am reluctant.
I have a little time to figure this out (about 25k), but I wanted to get opinions here to see what others thought.
So I have 2 options for work on my VW TDI here in town. The dealer, and a well known German repair garage (one reccomended on this forum). The Garage is Werners Garage in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Now, I have worked with the garage for years with my older ALH TDI. They have always beat the dealers quotes and I have always trusted them to do excellent work.
My MK7 Golf TDI is at 105k on the clock. With the timing belt change interval coming up at 130k, I thought I would start asking what I would be looking at price wise to get this done. First call was to Werners Garage. The service guy who I did not recognize spouted out a quote of $2500. Shocked, I asked "why!?". He hung up on me. I called back asking for the manager and he convieniently said the manager was out. I asked how much parts and labor was and he said it was $1900 in parts, the rest was labor.
I then called he dealer who normally I would not trust to do good work on any TDI, just from the horror stories of others on this forum who have taken their TDI's to the VW dealers before and had very bad things happen. Personally I know a guy from work that brought his 2012 Golf TDI to another dealer in Indiana for a timing belt change and after the change he was driving it home and it literally had catastrophic engine failure on his drive home. The dealer then fought with him and in the end did not fix it and he was at a total loss with the car. Back to the plot at hand, the local VW dealer to me quoted me $940 to change the timing belt. This was parts, labor and tax. They said they do warrantly all work and parts they do work on. But again I am reluctant.
I have a little time to figure this out (about 25k), but I wanted to get opinions here to see what others thought.