The car hit over 100k (but with a swapped engine, so the timing belt was changed before) and the timing belt seems to be flapping a slight bit.

My brother used to take his cars to a location in the City of Industry named HondaStar, and they quoted me 200 dollars just for labor. That's a pretty good deal, no?

Do any of you guys know of any better places in the local SGV (626) area that don't charge an arm and a leg?

THANKS!

 

Does it need to be changed? If it is flapping, it may just need to be retensioned. That price is decent, though. My TB/WP was about $400 to replace.

 

acura reccomends the belt is replaces every 90k so you are a little overdue

but paying someone to do a timing belt and water pump replacement is the bigget waste of money in my opinion

you cant get a melms manual and do it yourself in a few hours and spend 1/3 the money is will cost to have it done and you gain the experience and knowledge to be able to do it again

 

Go to my friend's shop in pasadena 626, very reputable company called Fast Autoworks, quality work! lmk, ill give you info on the place.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DC2 Mang &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">acura reccomends the belt is replaces every 90k so you are a little overdue

but paying someone to do a timing belt and water pump replacement is the bigget waste of money in my opinion

you cant get a melms manual and do it yourself in a few hours and spend 1/3 the money is will cost to have it done and you gain the experience and knowledge to be able to do it again </TD></TR></TABLE>

Agreed, scared me a little at first doing my own tbelt/water pump but I cranked it out in a weekend. Take your time. i didn't and didn't have my moter TDC properly so it took a lot of time consuming trial and error to get it timed right again. Didn't use my helms manual either