my "trusted" mechanic told me about changing my timing belt that i'd need to replace my water pump, belt tensioner, and balance shaft belt in addition to the timing belt. altogether, parts and labor, he quoted me $440. is this reasonable? for normal maintenance, do i need all of those things changed? thanks

 

yes you should do that all at once, and that price is probably about right.

 

thats a middle range price, u could find lower if u looked but who knows the quality of the install/parts, make sure he is using dealer parts, also u prolly wanna do the front main seal while in there

 

that's not a very bad deal, and yes you do need to do that all at once. don't worry you're not getting raped on this one

 

Sounds like a good deal to me - Although I did the labor myself and only spent 120$ for the parts.
You change everything together so that it's all fresh and clean at the same time. It sure was fun to do it myself...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jagan’92 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Sounds like a good deal to me - Although I did the labor myself and only spent 120$ for the parts.
You change everything together so that it's all fresh and clean at the same time. It sure was fun to do it myself...</TD></TR></TABLE>

heh heh heh, i'm picking up some hints here... but as much as i would love to not only know HOW to do it myself, i don't have any tools required or the time to do it and figure it out. just a collegiate-sized carport with a few hand tools. i would love to do most of these repairs myself, and would feel a lot better about it afterwards and everything, but it's just not feasible.

 

where did u get ur parts from? where they from honda?

 

That is actually a good price IMO. But just to be safe I would spend the extra 20 bucks if that and get cam seals and the balancer seal and retainer while your at it.

 

good price man do it

 

My shop would charge you a lot more than that haha. DO IT UP!!!

 

My shop would also charge a lot more than that.... DO IT!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by md23vtec &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">That is actually a good price IMO. But just to be safe I would spend the extra 20 bucks if that and get cam seals and the balancer seal and retainer while your at it.</TD></TR></TABLE> Good idea.. do it now before they start leaking in 10k miles

 

also if you have an h22, you might want to look into doing a manual tensioner conversion

 

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Yeah... the Auto-Tensioner on the H22 is crap

 

yeah good price i had to pay like $580.

 

well, thanks, guys. i guess i should go ahead and get'r'done. damn it's a lot of money, though. oh well. can't be avoided, i guess. theoretically, would i notice anything before my timing belt eventually popped? or would it just suddenly happen and shut everything in the car off (and bend the valves to hell and back)?

 

mine just broke no warnings or anything. I was driving down the highway and all of a sudden my car started to studder bad. I barely made it to the shoulder. But I was lucky no bent valves just a missing timing belt.

 

$440 seems high. i jsut had mine done this month. i think you can get a kit w/ both belts, the water pump and auto tensioner at honda-wholesale-parts.com or something close to that, you'll probably have to google to get the right site. i had the labor done for $190 by the most trust honda mechanic in the area. so you should be able to get it done right for less than $440. get more quotes from shops in your area

 

i'm a mechanic and i would say that would be pretty right, if you get the parts through the place doing the work. because of the fwd, it makes for quite a bit of work to manage to change those. good luck bud, i can't wait to get my jdm

 

Damn, I got quoted $550.

 

Do it, I'd probably charge more