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Author Where do Vauxhall get their prices from? *RANT*
Sam
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28th Nov 05 at 11:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Phoning around a few garages this morning to get priced up a new front wheel bearing for my brother's mk4 Astra, most places charge about £80+VAT all inclusive.

I phoned up Burnham Garage in Slough, someone phoned me back about 30 mins later with a price of...

£282+VAT

Jambo
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28th Nov 05 at 11:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
autovaux! then get a trusted garage to fix it for you
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Oh and sam, is it stil la vaux dealership? i thought it was hyundai or something now
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I booked his car in with a local garage to get the job done on wednesday, £96.35 inc. parts, labour, and VAT.

Yeah Burnham Garage is still a Vauxhall dealer but they also sell Daewoo (sorry Chevrolet ) cars too...
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This is because on the mk4 astra Vauxhall wont just reaplce the bearing - they reaplce the hub as well because they have a habit of wearing with the bearing.
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quote:
Originally posted by Teddy
This is because on the mk4 astra Vauxhall wont just reaplce the bearing - they reaplce the hub as well because they have a habit of wearing with the bearing.


Is this only with the mk4 or just any Vauxhall in general?
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I just looked in my Trade Club book, bearing is about £126+VAT retail, one for my mk3 is about £30+VAT...
Ally
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Richie had to replace his i think, got it cheap and fitted himself ... wallah
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Vaux are so bad on some prices and fooking Great on others like:

£60 for 4 dust seals for rear Brake callipers from astra GSI fitted to my corsa.

which i wont be buying

Then they do really good prices on oil filters, bits like that
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like said above vaux wont always just replace the worn part they will sometimes replace everything around it as it may have worn aswell!
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its a cxomplete hub/bearing/abs sensor all in one from memory usually around the £100 touch for the part!
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quote:
Originally posted by ainsley_brader
its a cxomplete hub/bearing/abs sensor all in one from memory usually around the £100 touch for the part!


trade 145 i paid as i just had to have 2 done
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Brother's mk4 is just bog standard 4 stud with no ABS. The price I quoted from Vauxhall was just for the bearing and fitting, does not include price of hub...
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we wont renew just the bearing bcuz they wear to the hub assy and after a a short time with new bearing itll be noisy as shoot
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Well I told my brother when he takes the car to the garage tomorrow to get them to call him if the hub is worn so they can replace that at the same time too!
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
quote:
Originally posted by Teddy
This is because on the mk4 astra Vauxhall wont just reaplce the bearing - they reaplce the hub as well because they have a habit of wearing with the bearing.


Is this only with the mk4 or just any Vauxhall in general?


This is actually a mk4 design fault.
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Just for the bearing or fitting included? The actual parts shop at Burnham Vauxhall is a Motoractors type place. So they sell genuine and non genuine parts.
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All inclusive, ed.

 
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