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Aerox-lad
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21st Feb 11 at 04:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
as title says. ive got new ones at home. but obv i;m not going to fit them as dont have a press. many tools etc
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21st Feb 11 at 07:39   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
hours labour, maybe 2
dannymccann
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Most garages won't use your parts for guarantee purposes, well that's how it is round here
Ronson
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Cost me £10 per side.
baza31
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can take well more than an hour, if its seized or ball joints spin etc, took me nearly 3 hours to do one side on a golf last week . Its not an easy job. I charged him £90 labour and £20 for the bearing .
mike56gte
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quote:
Originally posted by Ronson
Cost me £10 per side.


really??
Fro
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If you can get the hubs off and take them to the mech yourself that will be the cheapest way.
Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by baza31
can take well more than an hour, if its seized or ball joints spin etc, took me nearly 3 hours to do one side on a golf last week . Its not an easy job. I charged him £90 labour and £20 for the bearing .


ball joint seperator?
Ronson
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quote:
Originally posted by mike56gte
quote:
Originally posted by Ronson
Cost me £10 per side.


really??


Yeah, although the calipers were still attached to the hubs which probably didn't help, and the guy said he had to grind something (which I forget) off, no idea why tbh I think he was just making more work so he could charge £10 per side, I know the calipers were easy to take off as I sold them to a mate and he fitted them to his corsa, turned out they were the wrong ones so he put them back on the hubs.
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£10 a side is dirt cheap, 2 hours labour at our place is £80 alone, that's without parts.
Ronson
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Still, the guy made a mountain out of a mole hill about doing it.

Got it done that cheap as I know the guy.
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I wouldn't even change brake pads for a tenner. Steve it doesn't matter what you do it's time it takes getting them off without fucking them up , once there off usually go back on ok with new nut but still no one in their right mind would do that for £10
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