andyj
There's no F in Quality..
worth getting the water pump changed at the same time, as it only takes about 15min extra..... make sure you get one with a brass impellor.
www.seatspares.com are a good place to get the bits from.... usually OE stuff to.
www.seatspares.com are a good place to get the bits from.... usually OE stuff to.
Oh rite, Im looking at getting mine done too. Mines only a 1.4 8v and ive been quoted £250 for a cambelt and water pump change. Is that high, £80 sounds like a bargain to me 
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Oh rite, Im looking at getting mine done too. Mines only a 1.4 8v and ive been quoted £250 for a cambelt and water pump change. Is that high, £80 sounds like a bargain to me
Sounds like there having your pants down mate even with the water pump
If you know one end of a spanner to the other and have a haynes manual you should be able to do it yourself on a 8v.
you may as well do all the belts and the tensioner, parts come to about £65 from GSF and it took me about 2.5Hrs to do the lot - it would only take 1.5 if i had to do it again! Was not hard.
i was told that there no need to change the tensioner as they have never seen one go on a 16v.
Here the attached bill.
Here the attached bill.
I'll be using this as evidence to beat the price down when I get mine done! (I'll hide the date!)
Otherwise its a trip over to York.
Otherwise its a trip over to York.
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Cambelt and water pump on the 1.4 is easy - probably about 90 mins work
parts are dirt cheap too - price them up from www.gsfcarparts.com as a 1.4 Mk4 Polo
Mark
parts are dirt cheap too - price them up from www.gsfcarparts.com as a 1.4 Mk4 Polo
Mark
I cant believe it genuinely cost £80...........and from a SEAT dealer!!!!!!!!! Will have to ring up my local stealership tomorrow.
What a bargain,lol.
What a bargain,lol.
Well.............just rang up Kings SEAT dealership in Portsmouth and was quoted £185 all in. That's a hundred quid more then it cost you, damn 
And have just found a winner. Spurs Garage SEAT dealership in Wimbledon have just quoted me .............£465. And they have asked me if I could provide the lube.
Daylight robbery
Daylight robbery
I got mine changed on my old Cordy for £12.53! I supplied the parts, which were from GSF. It took an hour and 10 minutes, which included driving it in and out of the workshop.
If you do the change, you should buy a good quality belt (gates/contitech should be fine as they're OE with many makes), tensioner and water pump with a metal impeller. There's no point leaving the water pump out because they're known to fail and it'd cost you a cambelt swap plus more to replace it. Also, the dealers may not see the tensioners go because the belts are known to go first.
I supplied the parts, which were from GSF. It took an hour and 10 minutes, which included driving it in and out of the workshop.If you do the change, you should buy a good quality belt (gates/contitech should be fine as they're OE with many makes), tensioner and water pump with a metal impeller. There's no point leaving the water pump out because they're known to fail and it'd cost you a cambelt swap plus more to replace it. Also, the dealers may not see the tensioners go because the belts are known to go first.
OK guys, thinking of doing it myself. But just how hard a job is it. I'm not too bad when it comes to working on cars. In the past I have changed my suspension, brakes, bleed the brake system, and other bits and bobs. Are there any special tools needed. And also are there any bits that need removing that are known to be seized up and not wanting to go???
Cheers
mig
Cheers
mig
youll need some torx sockets for the crank pulley, erm removing the air intake is easy enough. cam covers just have a couple of bolts, once u remove the lower pulley it will be straight forward. The tensioner is just a pulley on an excentric bolt, slacken the bolt and u loose tension. then change the belt, the i used some circlip pliers in the pulley got the tension and tightend it up
.. also i had tipex! to make the pulleys
.. also i had tipex! to make the pulleys
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