i went to buy the clips to hold my front passenger side arch on

12 quid for the clips!

u2u'd.

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Originally posted by CorsaSport14
What Vauxhall you goto? Royston one?

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Bedford is probably closest to us. Then Hitchin :)

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Originally posted by CorsaSport14
What Vauxhall you goto? Royston one?

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What Vauxhall you goto? Royston one?

where did you bring the new head gasket from?

If you can afford to just say 'fuck it' to £72 I don't really see why you're complaining.

Priciple, yes. But if you didn't want to pay that you... shouldn't have paid that.

EDIT: get them to rip it off and refund you

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you paid 300 quid for the HG to be changed?

could have bought a set of tools for 100 and did it youself

Maybe they charged you for fitting aswell?

I couldn't be arsed as it still would of cost me £72 for the seal, as he didn't charge me for it to be fitted, and yes I know I should of gone to a scrappy, but who knows how long a second hand one would last.

your point isnt very clear, you shouldnt have paid it! you should have done ti yourself, even if it was a bit tricky

Well when I talked to loads of people they said £15-20 if you didn't read it properly, so I asked the manager of my local garage(not a Vauxhall dealership) to order it and fit, so I wasn't expecting that. It's like they charge £40 just for rear mudflaps, rip off central or what ( I haven't brought rear mudflaps, I asked how much they were).

so vauxhall ahve the nerve to charge ridiculous amounts for a boot seal-yet you paid it?

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Originally posted by ChrisBoom
You paid £352 to change the HG on a 1.2 8v :|

Would of been cheaper changing the engine :lol:

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tell me about it mate
i had a water leak on my XE and i had to wait four days for a new rubber "s" pipe.
cost me 67.00 minus VAT and it was about 2" wide 4" long with a little pipe coming off it

You paid £352 to change the HG on a 1.2 8v :|

Would of been cheaper changing the engine :lol:

I've already paid for the bloody thing. Would of only been £352 for the head gasket change if it weren't for the boot seal.

scrappy? fiver?

I got my car back from my local garage today after another head gasket failer, and I know why it failed, thermostat was dodgy from when I did it. My boot seal had gone to, and I was getting some nice condensation in my boot, so I brought the new headgasket and cylinder head bolts, only £48 pounds, happy days, but my garage had to order a new boot seal and it cost £72, HOW? Everyone I knew at college even my tutor who used to work at Vauxhall said it would cost around £15-20. So why does a piece of rubber cost that much????