NAC..'00 VW Passat 4Motion...$7200 in repairs!!!

[Robert Myers]

Steve,

And the estimator's name is Ben Dover?

Generic cats are under $100.  Surely you can find a local muffler shop 
capable of fabricating the setup for you for under $250 for BOTH cats and 
include installation in the price.  At onlt 107K miles the cats should 
still be perfectly fine unless you have been running extremely rich fuel 
mixtures.  Been getting 9 mpg lately?  I doubt it.

Valve cover gasket for $980?  Ya gotta be kidding.  $100 would be obscene.

Unless the OXS is made of diamond encrusted solid platinum $340 is 
outrageous.  Come by here and I can put one in your car for you for $50 and 
still make $10 profit.

I'd look on-line for the parts.  I'm not positive that The Parts Connection 
(http://thepartsconnection.com) handles VW parts but that might be a good 
starting point.

At 01:59 PM 6/10/2005, Steve Meyer wrote:

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>I know it's not Audi, but it's close. I recently took
>my '00 VW Passat 4Motion(107,000miles)in for
>diagnostic work and got blown away by the list of
>things needed done. I knew it wasn't going to be
>pretty, but $7200 is alot of money for repairs.
>
>The biggie is two new cats...$4200, including labor,
>aparently the parts are $3800.
>
>Prop shaft with labor...$1400
>
>Valve cover gasket and tensior gaskets(?)...$980
>
>1 O2 sensor...$340
>
>Vacuum lines...$100
>
>And this is all they can say for sure now. The codes
>for the o2 sensor and the bad cats are in the way for
>checking any further.
>
>Does this seem resonable? Any options besides the
>dealer on these items?
>
>Thanks for your help!
>Steve
>
>
>
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Bob
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