Thread: Just quoted for $6,600 from Landrover - Brookvale NSW

Hm..

a little history..

I have had an intermittent issue for the past 12 months, can does into limp mode and is resolved by pulling over, turning off and on again then away the problem goes for another month or so.

The codes I received were initially P0087 which was for the first 8 months, then that code was replaced by P2290 which appeared for the past 2 months and finally last week a new code P0191 showed up. The problem has been posted about previously but due to its highly irregular nature I dealt with it for sometime all the while knowing from everything I have read it relates to a high or low pressure fuel pump.

So today I took it to LR and asked them to fix it. An hour ago I get a call from them saying they want $6,600 to replace the low pressure and high pressure fuel pump, fuel tank O ring and for a new timing belt kit.

I was anticipating one, not both and nothing prepared me for a $7K bill or the mention of a timing belt kit (car only has 120,000km - its a 2011 2.7L).

Their rationale to bill for both pumps is that it is actually the High pressure pump which is busted but they expect the low pressure pump will go soon as it has had to compensate. The timing belt kit is 'because we are in there already'.

My questions to any mechanics amongst us:

1) Would you do both pumps or just the one which is stuffed (HP)?
2) Is the timing belt kit a worthwhile addition, ie, are they really in the vicinity and this would have significant savings on labour later in life?
3) Is this cost anywhere close to reasonable?

I asked them how much it would be to just do the High pressure pump and not the timing belt or Low pump and they quoted 5.3K (he used a basic subtraction of $880 for the low pump and $400 odd for the timing belt, using these numbers they obviously did not adjust for the reduced labor - this seems wrong.

agh, i hate cars again.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yeah. I wouldn’t go there! It was shortened back to 100k

Struuuth Tombie, don't say that... I did the first at 170k and the second at 340k and that was still only just 4 years apart. At 100k I'll be doing them every 2 years.
At almost $2k each time the further apart the better LOL....