[V8] Old Content - T-belt Parts Rant! (Hee-Hee!)

[Korn, Bob]

Got to agree with Cobram here, when you crack open the front of a V8, it's cheap insurance to replace all the moving or wear parts.  I don't like doing things twice, has nothing to do with "over repair".  

1990 V8 Pearl - Sold to some jerk in Chicago
2008 S6


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From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of cobram at juno.com
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 9:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [V8] Old Content - T-belt Parts Rant! (Hee-Hee!)

Yup, plenty of shops or techs will do piecemeal half assed jobs at the customers request.  But they'll usually (if they have half a brain) put down all the parts that they recommended and customer refused.  Then when that idler or whatever starts to squeal like a stuck pig a few months and miles down the road after an $800+ labor charge, you can pay them all over again as they hold up a copy of the invoice and say "We told you so.
 

If it's a PITA or time consuming job like a timing belt, it's penny wise and dollar foolish not change whatever you can.  I do it because I don't like to do jobs twice.

But hey, it's your car, if you want to roll the dice, roll the dice.  If it comes up snake eyes, oh well.

I can only think of one other owner left who actually pays a tech to work on his V8's, I guess I know 2 now.  Be happy you can find anyone that will even touch it, most shops don't need the headache, they have enough work to pay the bills without the inherent headaches that come from working on a 20+ year old orphaned car, let alone one that's German or Italian for that matter.  ;-) 

"Overrepair" on a 20+ year old German car with an unknown history....thanks for the laugh!



BCNU,
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Professor GT gmail <CavalloGT at gmail.com> writes:

> Anyway,  I'm also not of the "replace it all" mentality with respect 
> to doing a t-belt job. Some guys will throw every single related part 
> at the engine whenever they do a t-belt, saying its cheap insurance 
> against a "premature" failure. For the individual doing his/her own 
> work thats a personal choice. For the hired shop, thats a great way to 
> run up the bill so they can be sure to cover their rent for the month, 
> and that's a read sad way to run a business!

> Point is "over-repair" is still a rip-off, no matter how you try to 
> justify it. If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, looks like a 
> duck ................

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