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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Paddy Flannery on 16 January 2011, 11:53:24

Title: 2003 2.6 Cambelt
Post by: Paddy Flannery on 16 January 2011, 11:53:24

Hi,

My first post.

I've been quoted huge prices £500 plus to replace the cambelt on my 2003 2.6 V6 CD.

Anybody in the Hertfordshire , Home Counties area know whether this is the going rate at a local garage or is there a cheaper, reliable place. Willing to travel and stay the night !! if it saves a few precious pounds. Also, had air con regassed in August as it had slowly lost it's cool and within a month it had lost it again. Garage assured me that there no leaks when they gassed it as they had found a minor one and repaired it with a £3.00 valve. Many thanks for reading. 
   

Title: Re: 2003 2.6 Cambelt
Post by: Danny on 16 January 2011, 13:54:36

members on here can do it for half that, including supplying the kit, and using the right locking tools to do it

the word you're looking for regarding the garage prices is "theft"

Title: Re: 2003 2.6 Cambelt
Post by: 740mick on 16 January 2011, 14:15:33

Quote

Hi,

My first post.

I've been quoted huge prices £500 plus to replace the cambelt on my 2003 2.6 V6 CD.

Anybody in the Hertfordshire , Home Counties area know whether this is the going rate at a local garage or is there a cheaper, reliable place. Willing to travel and stay the night !! if it saves a few precious pounds. Also, had air con regassed in August as it had slowly lost it's cool and within a month it had lost it again. Garage assured me that there no leaks when they gassed it as they had found a minor one and repaired it with a £3.00 valve. Many thanks for reading. 
   

Hi Paddy since using the forum i,ve used Darth Loo Knee for work on my Omega,if you pm him i,m sure he.ll sort something out for you,he knows Omegas inside out and i,ve found him to be very reasonable with his rates  [smiley=thumbsup.gif] :y

Title: Re: 2003 2.6 Cambelt
Post by: Rockhampton on 16 January 2011, 16:41:49

Hello Paddy, I got quoted £480 for the belt on my 2.6, but used one of the forum mechanics (JamesV6CDX) and he did it for a lot less, also changing the water pump and auxiliary belt at the same time (water pump not driven by the timing belt on the V6, but worth doing while in there). Attention to detail was fabulous, every bolt torqued correctly, and happy to let me watch. Any of the forum mechanics will do you a top class job for a sensible price!  :y

Title: Re: 2003 2.6 Cambelt
Post by: Castleman on 17 January 2011, 15:10:06

Hi Paddy, i live in Watford and use a garage called Advanced Autos for my 2.2CD, i've had two cambelt changes. i can't remember what was charged but it wasn't £500.00

Michael the owner - phone number 01923 247 262

regards

Castleman

Title: Re: 2003 2.6 Cambelt
Post by: tomoco on 17 January 2011, 17:31:57

Darth (Daz) did my cambelt, waterpump and new aux belt last week. brilliant chap who does it right :y
Excellent price and piece of mind too :y :y

Title: Re: 2003 2.6 Cambelt
Post by: TheBoy on 17 January 2011, 17:35:03

It seems many, many garages cannot correctly do a cambelt - look at the very high number we regularly see that are incorrect.

I would recommend some of our members here - the likes of Darth Loo-knee has a high quality of workmanship, and is very well regarded on here.

The other option... ...look in the meetings section of this site - Guffers is arranging a day of doing cambelts ;)

Title: Re: 2003 2.6 Cambelt
Post by: Paddy Flannery on 20 January 2011, 15:33:30

Gents,

Thank you all for your kind advice.

Starting to save my hard earned now !

Take it easy