New clutch for the Golf

Mattie
Mattie Posts: 6,680
edited July 2007 in The Crudcatcher
Dropped the car off at 12 to get a new clutch fitted.

It went into the workshop at around 2, nearly 4hours later. Includes faffing about with the gearbox being out of line.

Total bill comes to Two hundred and Seventeen quid.

FARKIN 'ELL!
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  • Tartanyak
    Tartanyak Posts: 1,538
    Claim off the insurance, get a new one?

    You'll have to Do A Mattie™ with that one first though.
    Looks like a Kona
  • Mattie
    Mattie Posts: 6,680
    You'll have to Do A Mattie™ with that one first though.

    I resent that!

    I do love however that it's now a™!
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  • Tartanyak
    Tartanyak Posts: 1,538
    I've just spent a few hundred on annoying niggling maintenance things on my car too. Silly things wearing out!
    Looks like a Kona
  • The Joe Show
    The Joe Show Posts: 9,413
    Been driving a bit too enthusiastically mattie?

    Having a 10-year old car in britain is FTL. I've got to get a new sump fitted, new CV joints and strip and fill the rusting arches on my Almera.

    :cry:
    Less gears, more beers.
  • Mattie
    Mattie Posts: 6,680
    When I went to pick the Golf up, Olly showed me the original clutch.

    The rivets were being burnt away!
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  • Mattie
    Mattie Posts: 6,680
    Joe, I have not. My Golf is an M reg, still runs sweet as a nut thou!
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  • dan_trials
    dan_trials Posts: 597
    £200? Ha! take that to my work and you'll be expected to pay for atleast a days labour. Oh and don't count on getting your car back the same week.
    The answer is here! Spell it right! Fix it right!
  • Oldmacdonald
    Oldmacdonald Posts: 926
    Two hundred and Seventeen quid.

    Really not that bad at all.
  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    Hang on. You dropped the car off at 12 and it went to the back at 2?

    To my mind thats 2 hours not 4?
  • Mattie
    Mattie Posts: 6,680
    Andrew,

    I dropped it off at 12, it went into the workshop at 2!
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  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    OK but 12-2 still isnt 4 hours?
  • Marshall
    Marshall Posts: 1,738
    The Joe Show wrote:
    Been driving a bit too enthusiastically mattie?

    Having a 10-year old car in britain is FTL. I've got to get a new sump fitted, new CV joints and strip and fill the rusting arches on my Almera.

    :cry:

    Try having a 36 year old car....

    Since buying it 3/4 weeks ago I've already replaced the water pump, rewired various parts, replaced the brake calipers, replaced the exhaust. Now one of the wheels is rubbing like mad so I've got to relocate the axle, then buy an Anti-tramp kit and Panhard kit to keep the damn thing in place.....

    Oh, on top of that I've also got to somehow wire up the reverse lights, which means dropping the gearbox to get to the switch and then put it through it's MOT to go on Manx plates....
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  • TE
    TE Posts: 4,087
    Mine is 16 years old, still runs sweet.
  • truespin
    truespin Posts: 155
    that really isn't *that* bad actually - was about the same for my A3 (and your old clutch sounds like it was in a similar condition to mine ;) )
  • Mattie
    Mattie Posts: 6,680
    andrew156 wrote:
    OK but 12-2 still isnt 4 hours?

    I PICKED IT UP AT 6!

    So that is four hours!
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  • pollocks
    pollocks Posts: 36
    i hope they skimmed the flywheel if it was warn from the rivots against it as it will be orite for a while but start to slip prematurely due to an uneven flywheel surface

    and if you resent that try the 6k i spent on my fiesta rs turbo when i restored the thing it only came off the road cause the turbo seals had failed but after a full engine rebuild upgraded turbo and gearbox and then modifying a whole heap of parts for it it all soon adds up i have to say though with over 200 bhp it was an animal :D
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