Timing belt change (Atlanta area): $200

[Porkchop]

Poof.

[marvins_dad]

This is an amazing price!
I just paid $300 for labor for my TDI and I thought I got a sweet deal!

[iScott]

Count me in, dude. Probably sometime around mid to late August.

[73standard]

CRAP! That's a drive for me. Sounds like one hell of a deal though.

[larryziegler]

Shoot....why can't you be on the West Coast....I'd be taking you up on your offer and doing it earlier than planned.

[from Margaritaville...]

Originally Posted by larryziegler

Shoot....why can't you be on the West Coast....I'd be taking you up on your offer and doing it earlier than planned.

If you come out to see Larry, I'll commit to drive down highway 99 (3 1/4 hour drive) to Fresno and we'll make a weekend of it. It'd be great to meet both you and Larry...

[larryziegler]

Originally Posted by Alan Margosian

If you come out to see Larry, I'll commit to drive down highway 99 (3 1/4 hour drive) to Fresno and we'll make a weekend of it. It'd be great to meet both you and Larry...

Fresno air service, while improving still sucks cost-wise. At least Sacramento has Southwest and Jet Blue to provide competition to keep fares down...Fresno just has the legacy carriers and Frontier to go east. Last trip to Jacksonville in March was $550 r/t....and to Maui in Feb was $719 r/t....ughhhhhh. Its looking like a trip to Aspen next Jan will be costing something in the $400 range r/t. Delta has the worst fares from here, to boot.

[marvins_dad]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

Was that from runsonbeer? I hear he does good work in the great country of Tejas.

Yup! And I watched the entire thing so I know how much labor it is to do one of these...and for $200 you can't beat it anywhere.

I think a VW shop (not dealer) quoted me $600.

[iScott]

I'm going to buy all the parts next Friday (payday) and then two weeks from then I'll head up there and you can do it. Is that good for you? Really, any time before the very end of July is good for me.

PS: How's Holley and the baby???

[larryziegler]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

Woohoo! Holley and the baby are great - Darby Lorena Earl was born at 5:56Am July 13th and weighed 7 lbs 12 oz.

Congrats on the new child. Wishing you many years of happiness and joy.....believe me, the time will fly! Enjoy it while you can!

[callisto9]

bump for a great guy and a super price! i paid about $400 labor to have this done last fall.

you know i would have been all over it if 1) this was 6 mos. ago, 2) i lived within 60-100 miles of you and 3) yeah, it's the distance thing.

congrats on the bebe!

[iScott]

I'm still on deck. DON'T PRESSURE ME!! haha

I'll head up there soon enough. Still gotta get the parts.

[Angel0910]

Do you do anything else? For example - if I bought "mods" for the car, would you do things like install? (Lamps, etc..)

I read about some filter making the car more efficient, and chipping (I guess makes in faster?) and jazz like that?

[mgwerks]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

Hi all:
Now that I've removed and reinstalled my timing belt numerous times, I'm a pro! So I am hanging my shingle for timing belt replacement.

Originally Posted by Porkchop

I will also give a $50 discount on the first 1.8T or TDI... since you'd be my guinea pig. But looking at the Bentley there are no major differences in the work required.

I think that it is great that you will be sharing your experience with the other dubbers. Just a word of caution - doing it several times on yours won't help at all if you are going to do one on a TDI - there is almost no similarity in the process. There is also the requirement for many very specialized tools to do the TDI belt, there's no "mark it and pray" option available.

Finally, the pump timing has to be set with a Vag-Com running, and is critical to maybe hundredths of an inch. If you are offering to do ALL NB timing belts, I think that there's a lot to think on. Oh yeah, and DieselGeek is the undisputed king for maintenance parts for the TDI motors (and other goodies). Not trying to darken the day, just wanting to help level set expectations.

Best of luck in the new venture![/quote]

Originally Posted by marvins_dad

This is an amazing price!
I just paid $300 for labor for my TDI and I thought I got a sweet deal!

It is a great deal, Antoine. Especially getting the parts from DieselGeek. It's quality parts and work the dealer cant touch at anywhere near that price!

[Growler]

I concur with MGWERKS on this one. unless you have bought the $300 toolkit from Metalnerd to do the timing belts on TDIs and reccomend only the www.metalmanparts.com or the www.dieselgeek.com full 100k parts kits ($305 & $330 respectively) you really wont have many TDIs getting their belts done.

your price is excellent for the 1.8t & 2.0 tho, good luck!

[iScott]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

...Scott, Gruven_98 wants to do a maintenance GTG either Aug or Sept... so maybe I could do it that day. I've volunteered Casa de Earl for the event.

I'm there, dude.

[iScott]

Ok, dude. I'm ready to order the parts. Aside from the $150 kit from ECS, what do I need?

[iScott]

Sweet. I'll order the parts tonight. And, considering they get here on time, I'll head to your place next weekend. Sunday the 20th would be great.

[Metal Man]

I have the 2.0l kits for $135 shipped with the GRAF waterpump.
http://www.metalmanparts.com/display...8&categoryId=8

[Growler]

Metalman is a great resource for complete TDI timing belt kits as well. he is about $30 cheaper than Dieselgeek FYI. if I still had my beetle I would have bought my kit from him.

as it is, I need to start looking for oil change stuff for the van..