[Finbar]

Iam keen to keep up to date with servicing my vehicles.
My yeti is a 2016 1.2 Dsg model and I've been advised that there is a 10yr (150k miles) service limit on cam belts.
My car is 9 yrs old and only 30k, so it's coming up to needing replacement next year. So I went along to my local Skoda main dealer in Letchworth to get a quote, I was shocked when they quoted me £960 for cam belt replacement.
I was expecting £400/500 ?
Can people tell me if they have had a cam belt changed recently and what the cost should be? This quote seems really expensive to me ?

Hi, I'm not surprised your shocked, you went to a main dealer for a quote.

A decent garage I would think around £350-£380 including a water pump.

 

[Finbar]

The price from an independent wouldn't be as cheap as Finbar suggests and there is no need to change the water pump with a cambelt change on a petrol, like there is an a diesel. Your original guess was more on the mark I'd say, maybe a bit low depending on where in the UK you are.

Any information on the belt already being changed in the 9 years? The life of belts when the Yeti was new was 5 years so a responsible owner would have had it changed then. The "new " life of belts as 140K or 10 years was introduced by Skoda in 2023 when your car was 7 years old.

I had my 1.2 petrol engine semi rebuilt and the vehicle had been sitting for a very long time.

My thinking was, sod it, it's costing enough, replace the belt and pump and be done with.

My friend has a diesel Yeti at a 138k and he is having the belt and pump replaced.

I think he said £425 but includes a couple of filters, they live in Yorkshire.

But I don't know, I was surmising off what they told me.

 

[Finbar]

It's three years since I had mine changed and my record shows £387 with oil and filter change at same time and that was a one man, but very experienced and trusted, set up. I would imagine prices have only increased since then and bigger garages with bigger overheads would have been more at the time. From what I remember it is not a straightforward job due to access limits so labour cost racks up.

That's an interesting point, I remember being shown where the pump was situated and it was recommended I replace the pump at the same time as the belt as pump was as difficult to get to, it was deep inside the engine compartment.

As far as position is concerned is the pump more or less situated the same for a diesel and petrol?