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Offline Worty

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New clutch
« on: 03.12. 2024 21:48 »
Took the Octy to a very good garage a few miles away for a new clutch - £550 all in with gearbox oil change.  Turns out this was an excellent price for a full Sachs DMF clutch kit fully fitted *good3*  The downside was that this replaced the crap SMF conversion that was completed with poor quality parts against my wishes - clutch only lasted 29,000 miles and less than 3 years (£576).

In the last few weeks I've spent £345 on a timing belt change, £550 on the clutch, and £260 on 4 tyres and tracking - let's hope that's it for the next 60,000 miles at least (timing belt is around 6 years and 60,000).   The original clutch lasted 139,000, so I'm expecting great things from this one *eek*

If you add in the £400 I wasted on the crappy SMF kit, that'd make an expenditure of £1555.  However, if I saw an old Octy with all that stuff done on it, I'd be happy to buy for that price!

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Re: New clutch
« Reply #1 on: 04.12. 2024 18:13 »
Great price++

In Norway, a clutch swap would cost around 1500 £ to 2000 £, depending on vehicle \ garage.
High end garages (Mercedes, BMW, Toyota etc) charges around 190 £ \ hour. Local smaller garage from around 120 £ \ hour and up. Very good reason to find the jack and get one's fingers dirty...

No wonder people here throw away not-that-old cars, often in excellent general condition (way before engine kaputt or rust has done it's job) ...apart from that 1 single repair quote that kills it.

For reference, the work depicted in my 'What have I done' thread (+ a few more things) so far saved me around 1200 £ by not using a garage. Thankfully, parts are very inexpensive, locally or from Ebay.


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Re: New clutch
« Reply #2 on: 04.12. 2024 18:21 »
Fees for work in my shed LOL
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