Toyota Lhr Workshops -- Thieves Galore??

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Toyota Lhr Workshops -- Thieves Galore??

My 2.0D has done 96k km, and its time to change the timing belt.

I called Toyota Walton, Township, as well as a Montgomery road shop (Kamal Autos) which deals in rolla spares.
Anyways the prices I got were as follows:-

Toyota Wkshops Montgomery Road
Timing Belt 1,850 1,550
Timing Bearings 6,600~7,000 875

What worries me is the price difference in the timing bearing .. a difference of almost 6k? lolz
If the prices were off by 500 or 1k, its still understandable since those workshops have more overheads .. but I wasn't expecting the difference (profit margin??) to be this huge, lolz!

Need some advice from fellow PWers who have changed rolla's timing belt!

regards,

Gari.pk User 8595 asked on 09 Sep 2010 11:18:53 am

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Arham - on 09 Sep 2010 11:19:12 am

Exactly. I had a very similar experience. I went to toyota ravi motors to get an estimate. Timing belt, AC belt, timing bearings..total cost they calculated was 9K +.

Than i went to islamabad one weekend and called a very old and reliable auto spare parts dealer. bought all the stuff within 2k and got them changed.

Infact there is a toyota ravi spare parts shop on montgomery road (probably the same shop u are talking about). i called them up and they told me that the bearings will cost 5k approximately. i wonder how come they said onething to me and than a totally different thing to u.