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Old 16-03-2018, 10:30 PM   #4
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Default Re: Timing belt replacement.

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Originally Posted by rondeo View Post
Prices are rubbery.

Between $190 or so and $1200, for belt kit with water pump, parts only.
Cheapest is Gates from UK, Ford AUS the the most expensive.
Done by a Ford dealer is about $1500, NO WATER PUMP.

What's puzzles me is the huge difference in the cost of parts.

Are Ford parts in AUS really worth 10X the cost?
hell no, when doing my suspension and finding out a strut top bearing had collapsed Ford wanted $100ea, in the UK they're GBP$12.....and I needed two made my blood boil, but what can ya do.

I just know the timing belt I did with everything else, was dirt cheap and that's my pay back.
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