Senna

I have been looking round to see how cheap I can get my cam belt service done. Sub city who advertise in the yorkshire Auto Trader do a full engine service for £275 includes timing belt, plugs, air filter, oil filter and all labour sounds cheap to me has anyone used them before???

rfowler

No, but that sounds good

peachy wrx

that does sound bloody good mine's going in on the 22nd for exactly the same thing and the cheapest i could find was £455 which until now i thought was reasonable

Markyboy uk

What's the URL for Sub City?

Brian the Sn@il

theres no way they can do the timing belt as well as teh full service for that price, ive been told the Timing belt is about £80 trade price and takes a good few hours to install.

Cheap is not always best

Senna

They don't have a web site but the number is : 01709 545164

Senna

The price is for the engine service and I would assume not brakes, G/box oil, Diff oil and what ever else gets checked/changed on the 45k service

greasemonkey

You are assuming, of course, that the company of which Senna speaks would use a genuine, Subaru UK supplied belt. There are plenty of third party suppliers offering them for less than half the price you mention, while the price from Subaru UK has also recently been reduced to a more realistic level. In this vein it'd also be worth asking up front whether they use genuine Subaru/NGK etc. parts, as well as what oil they plan to use, assuming this is included in the price.

Have to say that, assuming the list of parts also includes a quality engine oil, new coolant and so-on, £275 does sound extremely cheap for a job of this sort.

I'd be wanting to know a little more about exactly what this firm's experience and competency is before trusting them to do the job right. Finding out whether they're aware of the correct way to retension the cambelt tensioner, or whether they're aware of the best way to change the oil would be a good start.

While there's no point paying more than necessary, it certainly is true to say that paying peanuts does sometimes leave you in the hands of monkeys (and not the sort of monkey I'd be seen mixing with, if you see what I mean).

Bubba po

Subaru have just slashed their parts prices- perhaps that's had an effect?

greasemonkey

No, not that much of an effect. At trade, you'd be looking at something like £75's worth of parts under the new pricing scheme. Under the old pricelist, it'd be something like £110.

Senna

Sub city have been advertising in the trader for at least 3 years so they must have some experiance. The price was £250 when I first saw it but like i say it was at least 3 years ago. Some one must have used them in the past or they wouldn't still be in business. It's got to be worth a call to see if they do use genuine parts etc.