Urgent £800 Bill For New Actuator For Fiesta Durashift 03 Is This Price Fair???

[mikael]

my car broke down yesterday 2003 ford fiesta with the durashift gear changing system or semi atuomatic.

and i had it towed to the nearest ford garage. they called me up today and said i needed a new actuator for the car and quoted me 800 pounds for parts and labor, now this is rather a huge amount of money for me, so is this price fair? i really need an answer soon.

any advice would be greatly apreciated. they said it will include programming of the gearbox aswell.

thanks

mike

[just drive]

my car broke down yesterday 2003 ford fiesta with the durashift gear changing system or semi atuomatic.

and i had it towed to the nearest ford garage. they called me up today and said i needed a new actuator for the car and quoted me 800 pounds for parts and labor, now this is rather a huge amount of money for me, so is this price fair? i really need an answer soon.

any advice would be greatly apreciated. they said it will include programming of the gearbox aswell.

thanks

mike

I am suffering with the same problem, however instead of going to the dealers straight away i am currently researching it myself and looking through the web it seems the ford dealers are a bit hasty with the solution to this problem. It could possibly be something smaller, however its in their hands now and i assumed they've sorted your problem by now right?

Some of the pages i looked at:

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/3b5sj-my-ford-fiesta-semi-auto-1-4-duratec-wont-start-because

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=15624977

http://www.ilexa.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,25628.0.html

http://www.askthemechanic.co.uk/makes/ford-fiesta-problems.html

http://www.fordownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3106&st=0&p=10662&hl=durashift&fromsearch=1entry10662