[Vwdiesel] Injection Pump

[Tad]

Yeah, Travis wins the attention-to-detail award. :)

Apparently I misunderstood the quote because the bill turned out to be
closer to 2k all-in...

Oh well, this is the first big maintenance expense I've had in nearly 10
years so I'm not complaining.  I know the job was done right and he will
stand behind his work.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, travis gottschalk <tgott at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> My worry for $1000 is that it is too cheap for just the parts of it all. A
> timing belt kit just for parts is $310 if you get the water pump and all the
> idler pulleys and tensioner pulleys and bolts. The job is about a 4 hour job
> that most mechanics charge time for so $600 about for a cheap place to do
> the timing belt correctly. Then the injection pump while it won't require
> much more labor to remove rebuilding it by someone who doesn't know much
> about them doesn't make sense. Most rebuilds even on the new pumps are still
> about $700. Then you will likely need VAG COM to set the pump timing
> correctly afterwards. I think you are either getting a screaming deal on it
> or something is missing from the quote and you are getting screwed. Although
> he may not intensionally be screwing you if he doesn't know the car he may
> not be doing proper procedures of either job and you could be the one to pay
> for it down the road, maybe not right away but I always make sure it is
> don't right the first time. You don't want a water pump to fail on the
> timing belt because it wasn't replaced or your engine to drop down because
> the torque to yield bolts on the motor mounts were reused and you don't want
> the seals to go out if it was just a reseal job on the pump nor do you want
> the pump to need rebuilding even if the seals don't go back out if it wasn't
> totally rebuild before the next timing belt change. Also, don't know if you
> have the updated timing belt kit but they make a 100,000 mile kit for your
> car. http://idparts.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=449
> Travis Gottschalk
>
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