fair price so far ya reckon????? now with pics

[andyae85]

yea im absolutely guttered ay but the 4age goes nuts yea and they wouldnt let me take it without paying and after having the car with them for like 7 weeks i had to bite the bullet and pay dammit so yea i dont really no if theres anything i can do now, and their hourly rate was like $70 odd dollars but they didnt really tell me that at the start

[RED TOP MR 2]

main thing is to check it out before you do it.

[andyae85]

yea i sorta did mate

[snwtoy]

yea im absolutely guttered ay but the 4age goes nuts yea and they wouldnt let me take it without paying and after having the car with them for like 7 weeks i had to bite the bullet and pay dammit so yea i dont really no if theres anything i can do now, and their hourly rate was like $70 odd dollars but they didnt really tell me that at the start

Bugger Lesson learned hey? BTW, by law they can't keep the car even if you have not payed for the work. All they can do is invoice you, then send the debt collectors after you if you don't pay within a certain timeframe. Doesn't matter what signs they put up about cash on pickup, the law is the law.

[andyae85]

lesson learnt alright i wont do that again lol oh real shit i had no idea that law existed,,,, i asked if they could post it and they said no and seeing as i wanted it back so bad i just paid

[Mr Revhead]

can you post up EXACTLY what they did?
detailed please, as well as everypart they had to supply

[andyae85]

i left the bloody quote sheet at my mates place dammit will write it up tomorow, its real hard to understand though it dosent have like the specific job they did with how long it took

[matt dunn]

by law they can't keep the car even if you have not payed for the work. . Doesn't matter what signs they put up about cash on pickup, the law is the law.

Wrong.
Once they release the car they cannot get it back to hold it,
but they can hold it for as long as it takes for you to pay the bill the first time.

That does sound like an overkill on the price though,
but if you take it to a w/shop, thats what you get.

I'm sure someoen from here would have done it for a lot less than that,
even I would have come and got it, done it and delivered it back for that,
but that would not have been at $70 per hour.
My time at work is charged out at about $70 per hour too though, so i can see where it mounts up.

I have supplied an fitted a link to a 4AGE in a car for $1k at home,
but thru work, $1k struggles to get a standard ecu wired up even with all parts supplied.
That's the difference between work job and perk job.

matt

[snwtoy]

by law they can't keep the car even if you have not payed for the work. . Doesn't matter what signs they put up about cash on pickup, the law is the law.

Wrong.
Once they release the car they cannot get it back to hold it,
but they can hold it for as long as it takes for you to pay the bill the first time.

You may want to check the letter of the law on that one, a close friend who spent many years panelbeating came across this many times (in south auckland). If the cops ended up being called they had to release the car every time.

[Rob_GTZ]

is $675 a fair price for a waterpump replacing? also put new cambelt in but they had to remove it either way to do the waterpump.

just feels a bit steep, maybe im wrong..

You got ripped off big time, i've just done a waterpump on fwd 4age, waterpump itself was $110 brand new from Toyota, then about 1-2 hours work to do it, and cambelt does not need to be removed at all

[Cakky]

hmm weird he told me that to take the waterpump out you need to remove cambelt as well, sorta ended up being a good thing though because apparently it was pretty rooted dunno though starting to get more and more suspicious now i owe the bugger the money and im shit poor at the mo lol

[MikeMan]

by law they can't keep the car even if you have not payed for the work. . Doesn't matter what signs they put up about cash on pickup, the law is the law.

Wrong.
Once they release the car they cannot get it back to hold it,
but they can hold it for as long as it takes for you to pay the bill the first time.

You may want to check the letter of the law on that one, a close friend who spent many years panelbeating came across this many times (in south auckland). If the cops ended up being called they had to release the car every time.

IIRC they have to release the car IF the job is finished.

Became standard process for the old man to leave one wheel off and up on stand saying he needed 10 mins to finish the job to see if they would pay.

However this was some time ago so it may have changed.

[andyae85]

heres the bill,

[Mr Revhead]

quite a lot of "make up...." and "modify to fit" in there....

after reading that, looks all legit to me, unless they havnt done all that.

[andyae85]

yea,,,,,,, na its probably right

[Bling]

far out they did a lot!

I guess as people have said, just take it as a lesson.

You took it to a workshop, whose job it is to fix stuff AND make a profit, so thats what they have done.

I'd take a good 6 months to do that much work after my day job, and parts etc would probably come to half that, so at the end of the day, you SHOULD have a good job done, the parts they use are all good by the looks, unlike some of us backyarders

Mechanics are expensive, that should be the lesson, in future, learn to do what you can yourself and you will be suprised how simple some things are to do and your labour is free.

[bluemaumau]

yea it should be fairly mint now, alot of small things here and there replaced

[Rick]

I dont like the sound of this "Mounted computer onto inner guard"

[Zak]

andyae85, post up some pics of the engine bay and stuff so we can see the quality of work.

[andyae85]

yea everything was done right, and it goes great but yea

as for the computa im really not happy with that, they put it there so they didnt have to extend the wires looks ghey there as well