406oc.co.uk

I've just been quoted £921, £800, and another at £800.
This is in the Andover area.
Anyone had this down recently? what kinda price did you pay?
anyone recommend a mechanic who doesn't charge the earth in the Andover area?
Cash in hand, or receipts, whichever suits.

cheers
millard

Can't help with any mechanics in your area but out of curiosity I rang a place who do engine rebuilds with a 5 year warranty and they quoted me £1200 to do my old 1.9td.
I dare say if you travel north you'll pay a lot less on labour tho

Are you sure it's not woth looking into an engine swap, if it's going to cost that much?

Doggy wrote:Are you sure it's not woth looking into an engine swap, if it's going to cost that much?

At those prices thats a good shout, why are the 406's so expensive to do things like head gaskets? or is this poor guy just getting ripped off?

A couple of the mechs reckoned that the labour charges for an engine swap would still be high, plus you dunno what you're buying.
looking more and more like a scrapper and buy the same again.
cheers guys
millard

i do headgaskets every week on Mitsubishi L200 we get the heads skimmed and pressure test for 60 pound and i can do them in about 4 hours ive never done a hdi but done loads of 1.9td if u lived closer and i had the time i would of done it for u

midsmike wrote:i do headgaskets every week on Mitsubishi L200 we get the heads skimmed and pressure test for 60 pound and i can do them in about 4 hours ive never done a hdi but done loads of 1.9td if u lived closer and i had the time i would of done it for u

Hi Mike, thanks for your reply.
Any idea what you'd charge for the job?
I might consider bringing it to you.
PM me if you like?
cheers
millard

L200's have the engine round the right way, much easier to get the head off.

Peter