🚀 go-pugleaf

In git.ads Eric <gte345n@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Belts: $10
> Seals: $5
> Water Pump: $60
> Labor:  $50
> Knowing you get the Shaft somewhere other than Tech:   Priceless

The timing belt itself for a 1988 Honda Accord costs $30.38 from 
parts.com.  You can find Honda Accord '86-'89 timing belt kits (which
includes the water pump and other belts) for $130-$140 online.  Like I
said: "If I bought the parts and did it myself it probably would have cost
less than $145".

And $50 labor?  Please tell me where you've found $12.50-$17/hr labor
since every dealer/mechanic I talked to wanted 3-4 hours labor for a Honda
Accord timing belt kit job.

> Jason Kau <jkau@vulture.cnd.gatech.edu> wrote in message
> news:8ur9bp$jlv$1@news-int.gatech.edu...
>> In what way?  Sure, if I bought the parts and did it myself it probably
>> would have cost less than $145.  However, I have neither the tools,
>> skills, patience, or desire to do car maintenance myself.
>>
>> In git.ads Eric <gte345n@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>> > You got screwed.
>> >
>> > E
>> > Jason Kau <jkau@vulture.cnd.gatech.edu> wrote in message
>> > news:8uo5ks$g8e$1@news-int.gatech.edu...
>> >> In git.ads Harry King <king@havoc.gtf.org> wrote:
>> >> > Balderdash.  every year, Honda and Toyota sell a million Camrys and
>> >> > Accords to unsuspecting grocery shoppers who will take them in for
>> >> > service, and fork over $100 to have a throttle body cleaned as part
> of
>> >> > "Maintenance."  WHo'll fork over another $500 after 60,000 miles to
> have
>> >> > the water pump replaced as "maintenance."  WHo'll fork over $200
> every
>> >> > 30,000 miles to have the plugs replaced as "maintenance."
>> >>
>> >> You're exaggerating a tad.
>> >>
>> >> It cost $389 at Ed Voyles Honda to have the timing belt, water pump,
>> >> alternator belt, compressor belt, ps belt, and a couple oil seals
> replaced
>> >> on my '88 Accord LX-i.  I got 107,000 miles out of the water pump and
> the
>> >> belts.
>> >>
>> >> The spark plugs have been replaced once in 108,000 miles.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jason Kau
>> >> http://www.cnd.gatech.edu/~jkau
>> >> jason.kau@gtri.gatech.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jason Kau
>> http://www.cnd.gatech.edu/~jkau
>> jason.kau@gtri.gatech.edu



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