Price

[Disco Steve]

how much should i be expecting to pay for both radiator hoses, fitted, new coolant, bled and pluged into the diagnostic com on a Disco TD5? is the diagnostic needed?
Cheers Steve

[dobbo]

how much should i be expecting to pay for both radiator hoses, fitted, new coolant, bled and pluged into the diagnostic com on a Disco TD5? is the diagnostic needed?
Cheers Steve



considering the overheating incident you had i'd be replacing all hoses, changing coolant and getting the head checked. Just for your own piece of mind. Unfortunately I don't expect it to be cheap. No idea on cost and labour though.

[Disco Steve]

It is in at the mechanics, the head is fine they said it would have been done last week, but the apprentice opened the box for the hose with a knife and cut it. had to reorder the hose:( they quoted about $450-$500 for the rest. is this resonable?

[chosen]

It is in at the mechanics, the head is fine they said it would have been done last week, but the apprentice opened the box for the hose with a knife and cut it. had to reorder the hose:( they quoted about $450-$500 for the rest. is this resonable?
About $450-$500 for the rest, do you mean just for the hoses and replacing/flushing/bleeding the coolant? If so that definitely seems a bit steep.

[Disco Steve]

Yep thats for hoses, bleeding, fitting and clearing any faults in the ECU. how much should I pay?

[dobbo]

sounds about right. It's a D2 it's expensive to repair

[chosen]

Fitting and fault finding the ECU, that might be the costing on the cake, now I'm not a mechanic but I wouldn't expect to pay more than $250 MAX for hoses and bleeding alone. I can have a look in my price book tomorrow if you tell me what hoses (give you an idea of the cost of hoses alone) if you'd like. Bleeding is easy and takes no time at all.

Chosen

[Disco Steve]

Top Hose $90, Bottom Hose $90, Fitting $75, Diagnostics $55 and new cap

[dmdigital]

The only "radiator" cap is on the overflow reservoir.
The fault clearing of the ECU is a 2 minute job, fault tracing though can take as long as it takes. $55 is probably their minimum labour charge.
You didn't mention the cost of coolant but given you can get a 20L drum of pre-mix O.A.T. coolant for no more than $95 then there's a max cost for that.

[rovercare]

It is in at the mechanics, the head is fine they said it would have been done last week, but the apprentice opened the box for the hose with a knife and cut it. had to reorder the hose:( they quoted about $450-$500 for the rest. is this resonable?

Your getting ripped:mad: they're probably charging you for the second lot of hoses:o

[hiline]

Your getting ripped:mad: they're probably charging you for the second lot of hoses:o


i hate when guys do that :twisted:
:rocket: shoot them all i say ;)

[p38arover]

The only "radiator" cap is on the overflow reservoir.
The fault clearing of the ECU is a 2 minute job, fault tracing though can take as long as it takes. $55 is probably their minimum labour charge.

The cap is a pressure cap so it isn't cheap. can't tell the cost a the moment.

Clearing the faults may be a 2 minute job but having used Testbook, I can assure you it takes a damn sight longer than that. :(

Testbook is incredibly slow and cumbersome. You can spend remarkable amounts of time doing what should be quick and easy. :mad:

Ron

[barryj]

Your getting ripped:mad: they're probably charging you for the second lot of hoses:o

.... and the other stuff ups the apprentice makes ..... I was one once so I know a bit about it, and I was also a TAFE teacher.

Try hiding a week's worth of apprentice stuff ups for an entire class!