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Alternator repair

Lyonmark
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How long should it take to change the alternator on a 1.6 diesil ford focus? 

 

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    Not long.  Good access space on those.  Easily done within 1 hour at a garage.

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    What about if its done on a driveway? 

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    What about if its done on a driveway? 

    I ask this because so far it's taken a mobile mechanic 9 hours just to take off the faulty one. 

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    Just now, Lyonmark said:

    What about if its done on a driveway? 

    I ask this because so far it's taken a mobile mechanic 9 hours just to take off the faulty one. 

    He's either lacking competence/experience or taking you for a ride...

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    Well so far he charged me £350 and still expects to charge me for the alternator and the time it takes to put it back on 

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    20 minutes ago, Lyonmark said:

    Well so far he charged me £350 and still expects to charge me for the alternator and the time it takes to put it back on 

    Not sure what to suggest tbh.  I would expect it to take a bit longer on a driveway but I'm struggling to see how anyone could stretch it out that long on purpose, let alone inadvertently.

    Perhaps @iantt could confirm how long it should take in case I'm misremembering something about this job?

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    3 hours ago, Lyonmark said:

    Well so far he charged me £350 and still expects to charge me for the alternator and the time it takes to put it back on 

    Did you get any kind of quote for the job before he started? It's a very 'routine' job with specific hourly times allocated to it. It's not as if he was working blind on finding an obscure fault. (actually, after 9 hours, maybe he is working blind!) 

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    Had a quote of someone else for £380 though I thought that was alot. 

     

    This guy wouldn't quote for the job just said his hourly rate was £30 pH. 

     

    As I thought it was only around a 2 hour job I agreed, then got home to find he had spent 9 hours on it

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    Depending on the age of focus and variant of 1.6tdci  time is anywhere between 0.5hr to 2.8 hr 

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    41 minutes ago, Lyonmark said:

    Had a quote of someone else for £380 though I thought that was alot. 

     

    This guy wouldn't quote for the job just said his hourly rate was £30 pH. 

     

    As I thought it was only around a 2 hour job I agreed, then got home to find he had spent 9 hours on it

    Well there's a lesson learned, an expensive one, but a lesson nonetheless...

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    It's a 2011 sports 1.6tdi 

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    I changed 1 on my old Focus, same car as yours and it took me about 2 hours to take it off, (never done one on one of these cars before).

    Had to take it off from underneath and you need to unbolt the air-con compressor and move it out of the way.

    After working out how to get it out, took about an hour to put back in.

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