good price or rip off ?

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just had a few things done to my car, was this a good price ?

work done :-

diagnostic to find out why my car was makeing a grinding noise (1hr labour) and check fault codes - FIXED £35

new cambelt, old cambelt tensioner Bearing had broken and my current cambelt was slack - FIXED £67.50

Interim service, oil change, anti freeze, brake check, battery check, ajust clutch, tighten handbrake - DONE £27

Total : £129.50


parts :

Cambelt £23.50
Bearing £60.27
Oil (10/40) £13
Oil filter £4.25
ScreenWash £1

total for parts £102.02

final price includeing VAT £272.04

is this a good price ? i think it is fairly reasnoble myself. they also advised on the following :

o/s/f + n/s/f brake pipes corroded
front brake pads getting low
battery poor condition
Excess handbrake travel - advise check ajust on rear brakes.

these recomendations arnt too bad because i knew my bettery was on it's last legs, i was planning to do the hgt/coupe rear disk conversion shortly after christmas and also get green stuff pads for the front/rear, so nothing i dident expect to tell the truth. all the above work took from 8:30am to 2:00 the following day but they would have had it back earlier but i forgot to put my alarm in valet mode :( so they had problems with it


so any thoughts on the price ? good or bad ?

ps. there customer service was exceptional and they called me 3 times to give me updatres, always told me the price upfront which never changed and told me before they did any work, showed me the parts they replaced/removed so i am hoping that this is a good privce because i will use them again in future if it is.
 
Depends on what car you have.

Apart from that, it sounds pretty damn cheap to me.
 
Re: Re: good price or rip off ?

it was at a second hand fiat/alfa specialist garage so they have all the equipment that the main dealer has.

my car is a 1998 S reg 1.4
 
Re: Re: Re: good price or rip off ?

Still sounds quite reasonable, bearing in mind a 12k sce for my HGT is around £180.
 

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