Re: 90q20v brakes & belts

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Jesster436@aol.com say:

> On my lunch break today I decided to stop off at Rusnak Motorcars to see if
> they had any of the previous owner's service records on file.  They did but
> according to their files nothing but oil changes had been done to my car.
>  The car now has 98K miles on it and as far as I can tell none of the belts
> have been changed.  The dealer quoted around $400.  I've heard that you can't
> get to the belts with out disassembling the entire front end (bumper, grill,
> etc...) Anyone do this themselves?  He also told me that some 90q20v front
> brakes service is in the $600 range unless I don't have the "expensive kind"
> which he says are only on some 90q20v.  How do I know?

Just BTDT with Angela's 90Q20V.

Nothing in there is easy to work on. Doing the timing belt (needed
at 60K - it is an interference engine) was a major PITA. I let my
shop do it. Ditto for the regular belts. $400 was about the right
figure for the work.

We just did her front brakes yesterday. The expensive ones are on
*most* 90Q20V's - apparently the ones with 14" wheels and no sport
suspension. The 15" wheels and sport suspension used rotors the same
as (?) the 100Q, which makes them cheaper. I got mine from Imparts.
Rotors and Repco Organic pads for about $200 total, plus some labor
to have my shop install them. The shop originally said about $550 if
all the parts had to be ordered from the dealer.

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