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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:57 am |
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Joined: Feb 17, 2011 Posts: 1201
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Location: Wiltshire
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can anybody say how long it should take for a garage to change an alternator on a 1.6 16v 206cc
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:50 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 1031
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Location: UK - North
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not really sure how cramped your engine bay is but i did this recently on my 8v hdi (which has aircon and power steering) and if a garage charges you more than an hours labour then i'd be interested to see how that time was spent.
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:32 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 3935
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mine was done the other day they had the car a week, the alternator then failed and so RAC took it back to them and 3 days later solved!!!
Dont have it reconditioned, i did and it broke down!!! 
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:51 pm |
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Joined: Feb 17, 2011 Posts: 1201
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Location: Wiltshire
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the engine bay is the same layout as and xsi and it is going in under warranty so should hopefully be a new one gutted tbh because i only had the car back 4 hours after collecting it from the body shop after having a fiat bravo 'D' for two weeks whilst it was being repaired and i get the first hours labour free so was just wondering 
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:02 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 7094
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Location: Suffolk
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Takes me on an 8v roughly hour or so
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