VW touran cam belt price

simonpolly · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:23 am Post Subject: VW touran cam belt price

I have a 2ltr fsi vw touran it has low mileage of 18000 miles,it is coming up for its fourth year service,local dealer has quoted £389 for a cam belt change and £201 on top of that for a service,in short £590 for a service,my questions are,1 is that expensive for a cam belt change? and 2 does it really need it doing being as it has only done 18000 miles in four years ?. Dont mind the £200 for the service that seems reasonsible,but cam belt price was a bit of a shock.

^neo^ · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:30 pm Post Subject:

Don't use the main dealer!
Find a decent independant vw specialist and try and make sure they use genuine parts

ktuludays · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:05 am Post Subject:

my local vw independent did cambelt and water pump using genuine parts for £300.

2.0 tdi engine

BazzaS · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:56 am Post Subject:

Just had cam belt done at dealers on my Passat for £330 - they apparently have to take the front of the car apart to get to it and that's where the cost lies.

ktuludays · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:36 pm Post Subject:

BazzaS wrote:

Just had cam belt done at dealers on my Passat for £330 - they apparently have to take the front of the car apart to get to it and that's where the cost lies.

yes that's right. full front off to get access.

htgeng · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:00 pm Post Subject: Re: VW touran cam belt price

simonpolly wrote:

I have a 2ltr fsi vw touran it has low mileage of 18000 miles,it is coming up for its fourth year service,local dealer has quoted £389 for a cam belt change and £201 on top of that for a service,in short £590 for a service,my questions are,1 is that expensive for a cam belt change? and 2 does it really need it doing being as it has only done 18000 miles in four years ?. Dont mind the £200 for the service that seems reasonsible,but cam belt price was a bit of a shock.

My experience is that VW will always charge top whack and dress up something like an oil change with a visual check as service. I can get oil change done at local garage for £15 + parts. whereas that would be £65 at VW.

Anyway to cut a long story short, the cambelt on my caddy van (same front as Touran/reg?) apparently needs renewing and they quoted £300 which I think was the best price he could give as I said I had very little work in myself atm. I might call a competitor VW dealer to check thats an ok price.

ch427 · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:48 pm Post Subject:

ktuludays wrote:

BazzaS wrote:

Just had cam belt done at dealers on my Passat for £330 - they apparently have to take the front of the car apart to get to it and that's where the cost lies.

yes that's right. full front off to get access.

you only have to slide the front panel forward not take it off
its not a bad job