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Quote for work from OPC. Indie, OPC or home fix?

Ponyboy Curtis

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Evening all
Lovely chap at Brooklands had to look round my C4S and popped it on the ramp and came up with the below list of repairs.
Would you do them? If so who with and at what sort of money?
Look forward to your opinions as always.


1 Renew the rear brake discs and pads, with the fittings, sensor and protective back plates
parts
Rear brake discs x 2
Rear brake pads x 1 set
Disc screws x 4
Protective back plate due to rusted away x 2
Calliper bolts x 4
Pad damping plates x 8
Warning contacts x 2
parts total £667.00
Labour total £145.00
Subtotal £812.00 + vat £974.00 inc vat

2 Renew rear brake calliper lining plates if found to be required when the rear brakes are apart due to alloy corrosion and distorting the calliper plates
parts
Calliper plate kits upper and lower if required x 4
parts total £107.00
labour with brake apart £170.00
subtotal £277.00 + vat £332.40 but may not be required, cannot see them until brakes stripped.

3 Front suspension bump stops perished and falling apart, Renew the bumps stops and the gaiters
parts
Top shock absorber nut x 2
Bump stops x 2
Gaiters x 2
Parts total £50.00
Labour total £255.00
subtotal £305.00 + vat £366.00 inc vat

4 Lower front lips spoiler renew
Parts £65.00
Labour£30.00
subtotal £95.00 + vat £114.00 inc vat

5 Boot floor drains renew £26.00 inc vat

6 Head light vents below front boot floor £18.00 inc vat

7 Battery earth lead for the later super seeded part
Part £21.00
Labour £35.00
subtotal £56.00 + vat £67.20 inc vat

8 Rear left outer drive shaft boot split, remove rear left hub to remove the left drive shaft and renew the inner and outer drive shaft boots and fittings
Parts
Drive shaft boot x 2
drive shaft cap
Circlip
gaiter clip x 4
C/v greas
Drive shaft nut
drive shaft bolts x 6
parts total £125.00
Labour total £255.00
subtotal £380.00 + vat £456.00 inc vat

9 Timing chest base cases leaking engine oil, remove the engine and place on the engine stand, strip down and renew timing chest gasket and seals, remove and refit timing chains, reset the valve timing and rebuild refit to the car and fill with oil and road test
parts
Gaskets, seals and fluids. £846.00
Labour £2125.00
subtotal £2971.00 + vat £3565.20 inc vat
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Tough question. I think the smaller items you could do at home and the other fixes too if youre proficient with a spanner. Other areas you can get quotes from OPC - try the Classic Centres. Some may also by MOT failures (maybe the boots) so you'll need to get done.
The big ticket oil leak will depend on how bad it is in my opinion. If its a weep, then Id monitor and wait until you need to to a top end rebuild (what is your mileage?) :?:
 
do it yourself,easy enought to do or if not confident any garage could do that,8 get any garage to do it shouldn't cost a lot,9 lump out ask around,
after all its a car...don't be afraid of it just cos its a porsche
 
Yes the brakes and other smaller items you can do yourself, they are very easy to change. You don't need to be a mechanic, if you have the ability to take a wheel off and unbolt the caliper it's that easy.

The boot, book it into a garage, you can do them yourself, but it can be a right job to get to the position to swap the boot over. It really needs to be on a ramp and the vehicle secure, as it will probably need a few strikes with a copper mallet and a bit of persuasion. It's a straight forward job, but needs to be done in the right environment.

You'll be fine doing the brakes, watch a YouTube video to help put you at ease. Remember to crack the wheels nuts off on the deck before you jack the car up.

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Sweet baby jesus those labour rates are minty. Go elsewhere. Half those jobs can be done yourself. The bump stops and gaiters are a waste of money if the shocks are original. What's the mileage and age of the shocks? Mine were like that for a good year before I had them done at the same time as the replacement shocks.
Unless the oil leaks are bad a lot of these engines have weeps. Find out just how bad first.

Other than sorting your brakes and the split drive shaft boot there's nothing dangerously unsafe you can't shop round for or do at your leisure. 35 quid to swap the earth lead in labour! :floor:
 
The battery ground strap swap out is literally a 10 minute job, I've just done it, it's very accessible.
 
Hi PC

It depends on how wealthy you are and whether you have the time and the inclination to do all this.

Nothing there very urgent, but if left may become an issue

An element of it is nit picking and the OPC looking for some easy cash.

If you don't mind the aggravation of doing it on your drive/garage and getting tired and dirty and want to save a few quid then go for it.

I do various bits and bobs on mine including a brake overhaul but I have a space and air tools etc, I have done some fairly large maintenance works on mine, Alternator, plugs wires etc and it has all gone well, I find these cars very well engineered.

As mentioned, loads of web info and videos

The CV boots I would and indeed will have to, take to a specialist rather than an OPC, one of mine has a small split.

I am lucky to be 10 mins from Williams Crawford, who so far, seem brilliant, however I am not wealthy and have to budget

Good luck but do get another quote, there are lots of good specialists out there

Ash
 
You'd be a fool to start on the brakes using this guy.
I've a C4S
Plate lift on Big Reds is common.
Jack the car up, and place it on good stands.
Mole grip the front brake lines.
Take the pads out
There's a big cross shaped Spring you lever it out from the underside of the centre of the cross with a long screwdriver.
Pull out the brake sensors first, leave them hanging, don't lose the clips they're held in with, take a couple of phone pics first
Remove the front callipers
This is easy.
Two Allen bolts
Take the front discs off.
Soak the disc bolts with WD.
Get a good fitting bit.
The backing plates undo with 10mm bolts, spray em with WD, and undo half hour later

The rears are almost same, except with hex bolts on the callipers, and there,s shoes under the discs that are the handbrake assy
These are also easy enough to refurbish and adjust.
Change the discs if you need, however rear can be skimmed, they don't do half the work front ones do
While all four discs are off, clean the vent holes out with a twist drill by hand.

Send the callipers off and have then refurbed.
I've got an excellent guy that does them, decals an all.
Just done mine
He'll deal with plate lift and everything.
Your car will need this, no question, plus you'd be a fool not to reveal the callipers now there in your hand.
Stick in new pads, and refit the lot.
It'll take you two easy days to do the lot.
Have the ally back plates off the rear at the same time, and clean and hammer ite satin black them.
Your guy reckons these have rusted away?
They're aluminium, the fronts are light steel
Get your new sensors from type 911 , plus new pads.
Clean up your handbrake mechanism and grease it all nice.
It's a pain, but you'll get your head round it, it just requires patience.
At the end, completely change all the brake fluid.
You'll do the whole lot for £1200.
The lot.

I'm in the south of france this week, but e mail me, and I'll sort out the refurb details, and I'll send you some pics next week.

It's all doable, you just need the right tools, and Alford's do some really good professional tools, I just bought the stuff if I got stuck.
Once it's all up in the air with the discs off there's no reason why you couldn't do the driveshaft boot as well.
Your guys quote should've been an hours labour to do this once the discs are off.


The trouble with getting someone to sort your car is there's always something else, isn't there.
That's what really made me have a go at mine.
Earth strap for instance is under an open bonnet!
Forty two quid to undo four 13mm bolts
The chancers out there FFS
 
Stuttgart, send me details of your Caliper refurb man please

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This guy is good
I mean really really good
Powder coated and decal-ed
They look like new
All new seals, stainless plates
Any colour.

If anyone's unfamiliar with plate lift, it the furring or corrosion due to alloy and steel being in close proximity
This causes the plate to lift, and jams the pads.
Shows as brakes locking on after the arts been parked for a while
The inside pads don't grip.
Mine showed as uneven brake pressures at MOT

Another hidden jobs hitting 993s

I'd recommend this guy 100%
E mail me and I'll pass the contact details.
 
Apologies for the that rely. Currently in sunny Cornwall with the family!

A myriad of responses as always from you lovely people :D

None of the above is currently effecting my driving enjoyment so far.

Milage is a mere 89k :roll:
Original suspension I was led to believe.
The weep is barely noticeable. Certainly no dips on the garage floor!
I like to think I know my way round a spanner so a few jobs I'l certainly tackle myself.
The breaks seem a bit too important for me to handle but i use to dp my beetles! Cant be too different. :grin:

I'll get some other prices and report back.
 
stuttgartmetal said:
This guy is good
I mean really really good
Powder coated and decal-ed
They look like new
All new seals, stainless plates
Any colour.

If anyone's unfamiliar with plate lift, it the furring or corrosion due to alloy and steel being in close proximity
This causes the plate to lift, and jams the pads.
Shows as brakes locking on after the arts been parked for a while
The inside pads don't grip.
Mine showed as uneven brake pressures at MOT

Another hidden jobs hitting 993s

I'd recommend this guy 100%
E mail me and I'll pass the contact details.

It was one for the best things that I ever did for my car .......... and if it is same the guy (Tomas) who certainly is a perfectionist.
 
Ponyboy Curtis said:
Apologies for the that rely. Currently in sunny Cornwall with the family!

A myriad of responses as always from you lovely people :D

None of the above is currently effecting my driving enjoyment so far.

Milage is a mere 89k :roll:
Original suspension I was led to believe.
The weep is barely noticeable. Certainly no dips on the garage floor!
I like to think I know my way round a spanner so a few jobs I'l certainly tackle myself.
The breaks seem a bit too important for me to handle but i use to dp my beetles! Cant be too different. :grin:

I'll get some other prices and report back.

in that case dont bother with the weep yet or the strut gaitors/bump stops. no way would you waste money replacing them when in effect you'll need new shocks soon anyway, do it then as one job.
 
Changed front and rear discs and pads, sensors etc, recently. Great price, eurocarparts.
 

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