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BMW 116I Timing chain

rduggy · 2013-01-23 20:34:56

My timing belt went the other day, its a BMW 116 2005. BMW garage has told me it will be 1800 euro to fix. Mentioned the recall which btw i was never informed of and they said that its only for a certain part of the timing chain. Can anyone plz advise. Im a student and dont have 1800 euro :( Any help would be much…

23-01-2013 8:34pm

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rduggy

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My timing belt went the other day, its a BMW 116 2005. BMW garage has told me it will be 1800 euro to fix.

Mentioned the recall which btw i was never informed of and they said that its only for a certain part of the timing chain. Can anyone plz advise. Im a student and dont have 1800 euro

Any help would be much appreicated

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#2 23-01-2013 8:37pm

Alanstrainor

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Please don't drag up old threads, I've moved your post to it's own thread.

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#3 23-01-2013 10:50pm

bazz26

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Main dealers will charge you top dollar in labour rates to do the job and not worth it imo on an 8 year old car, best thing to do is get a good independant garage to quote you for the same work. Their labour rates will be alot less.

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