**** me sideways

[Simo]

can anyone here confirm if a clutch in a sportivo takes 7 - 8 hours to replace??

Old mate reckons that it will take that long, and is charging me $941 for heavy duty exedy and labour, if he is trying to ******scam me, I will tell him to shove the clutch up his ****************

Edited October 13, 2008 by Simo

[TRIPPER]

Should take 6 hours at the most with an apprentice mechanic haha. I would say between 3-4 hrs though on average.

950 is also too much!

[Simo]

Thought as much, dodgy *****.

cheers squire

[Rolla Boy]

Sounds like a pretty average dealership quote including parts...

[TRDYUS]

Sim, tell him he's dreaming.

[Guni]

I got quote between 500 - 700 for parts and labour.

Reasonable i feel. Oh, mates rates.

[sinan]

HEY MATE. im from sydney and i just bought a exedy heavy duty clutch and got tit through a mate from autobahn and it cost me $320. normal going price is around $350. $10 either up or down. made a few phone calls and got 1 quote at the moment and he said it will cost $350 and an extra $50 to machine the flywheel if i remember correctly. he also said it will take about 8 hours or so. but i think if u tell them you need it done assap they will get it done in roughly 5 hours.

[SuperDave]

Toyota state that it takes about 4 hours to remove the gearbox, and another 4 to reattach it. So that is where they are getting the 8 hours from. Then labour at a rate of $110-$150/hr it adds up.

[KaZe-]

i reckon at that price its ok in the end if you tell them you want it done "asap" they can do it but really do you want them to rush on somthing so important like a clucth/gearbox thats just me sinan but yerh "Toyota" claim 8 hours to take on and off a gear box thats just plain BS!! i work on the aurion and camry engine everyday for 8 hours and takes me 1 min to put it on or take it off lol we only have 1min and 30seconds to do the job ahahah but thats just the gearbox still if it was in the car it still wouldent be that long but i just say wait paitiently and just let them do the thing that there best at just think of how good it would be to land lift after all that ;)

Steven

[toro126]

its true mate..im mechanic iv replaced a couple of cluthes in corolla's and it does take bout 8hrs, it can be done quicker but no point rushing things if you want it done right. labour ur looking between 250-350..

[Simo]

******** back on the road, settled for a stock equivalent purely for the fact that I need the ***** back on the road to get to and from my new job...

will get the exedy heavy duty later on, old mate even gave me the old clutch LAWL

Edited October 10, 2008 by SILVABULLIT

[T.J]

wow i never figured itd take so long to do the clutch i spose if they were to machine the flywheel as well itd be right.

maybe xoom can shed some light on how long it took him to drop his box out

[AE102]

had mine done under warranty - took Toyota 1.5hrs! the guide garages have to follow over here says clutch replacement is 4hrs. 8 -9 hours!!! your gettin well bent over..........

[Simo]

it took mate 8 hours yeh LAWL lucky I got quoted...

he absolutley loved the stivo tho after he took it for a test run, asked me if it was fully imported

[Simo]

Finally got some pics of the clutch, as you can see, there is nothing left of her and one of the springs snapped clean out LAWL

the bearing was also shot to ****...

Tractor all good now :)

Edited October 13, 2008 by Simo

[sinan]

hey mate. if you dont mind me asking where abouts did you get the clutch install from and how much did they charge you?

[Simo]

This bloke mum knows who works for lube mobile, he took it back to there workshop and fixed her up good :)

going to use him from now on, very good mechanic, no bull**** very upfront...

came to $1100 cause of the tow from one side of Canberra to the other

Edited October 13, 2008 by Simo