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What price a cambelt?

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Old Jan 18th, 2020, 22:08   #11
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Not that i've ever known, no. It's possible someone has stripped and cleaned everything on yours but are we talking about your 740 or V90?
If it's the latter then there is a possibility it had OAT from new but mostly Volvos were EG coolant up to about 2000
My '97 V90. I don't own a 740 mate. Not yet anyways. Lol. Right ok well perhaps that's me being mistaken. I'm glad I know that it should be EG as I've got some blue knocking around at home.

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The genuine belt kit is just over £100, with doing the pump we normally charge £300 using genuine parts.

If you are ordering a kit the s/v90 will be the wider type belt
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Automotive repair is a business. It has to make money.

You should expect parts to be marked up by 20%. The workshop has to provide a guarantee on them - if there is a failure, they carry the cost of the rework. And in any case, it is a part of the profit line of the business.

You can expect consumables like antifreeze, oil etc to carry a 50 to 100% mark up. This is a product the business has on hand generally and so they have paid for it, stored it, accounted for it, dispensed it etc. That all has a cost, and then there is a profit line.

So if you are pricing parts on the internet and then expecting that to be the price you get charged, meet reality.

On the labour side, typical labour is a 3:1 ratio on pay rates. If you pay your mechanics $15/hr, you should be charging their labour at $45/hr. This allows for leave, downtime, rework, training, costs of employment like personal safety gear, overalls hand cleaner etc. And, a profit line.

Auto businesses are under a lot of pressure world-wide. Increasing compliance requirements eg disposal of toxic liquids are adding costs to the business. These have to be met somehow.

In this case the question for the Captain is, could you (or anyone else) do it for significantly less and accepting that if you do it yourself you would carry all of the risks?
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