MarK4

Just checking to see if i am getting quoted a fair deal to have my flywheel skimmed, they reckon £100+vat. Is that excessive? Its a billet flywheel if that makes a difference.


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mark

jacko

i can get them done for £15 where i go

cossiegreg1

same here about £20

mikey_clough

i paid £58 and thought that was steep???

john_p_b

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fuck me sideways i paid £50 for mine and fell out with the guy as i thought it was massivly over priced!

Toe Knee

iTrader: (2)

Paid £30 to get my cossie one done!!

U just getting it skimmed or lightened?!

MarK4

so this isn't looking good lol, the most expensive price someone has is half what i have been quoted.

BigErn

Had my Cossie one done for £25 a couple year back

F500 CON

had my zetec flywheel done for 47 including vat

wirralphil

1hrs labour at most, got to remember they only put it in a lathe and skim the face.

Toe Knee

iTrader: (2)

where was it u went too?!

From memory as its been a long time, sutton rebore and bensham engineering round that way are supposed 2 be ok?

paul16v

Thats all we used to charge at my old place, was £28 an hour labour at the time £50/100 is just robbery tbh its 1 of the most simple things you can do on a lathe

MarK4

that was going through a subaru tuner called greenwood racing developments in surrey and i think the machine shop they use is local to them.

do you think i should offer to get it skimmed myself which might risk the warrentee they offer?

bensham engineering are about 2 minutes from my house so is a good option lol.

wirralphil

Thats it, hardest part will be making the cuppa T when it's on auto.

wirralphil

Skimmed a Subaru Flywheel a few years back, iirc there are 6 6mm dowel's which had to be taken out. Skimmed it of 3 small passes of around 0.6mm all in. Took all of 20mins for the whole job.

Toe Knee

iTrader: (2)

Ur best bet is to ring bensham then and ask how much they would charge to skim it, then ring the other place back and ask exactly what their planning on doing/what ur getting for £100 plus vat and give benshams quote (which i doubt will be anywhere near that!!)

They cant really dick u about with the warrenty if their not doing the work themselves anyway, sounds like they've added their cut ontop if their getting somwhere else to machine it

The only thing that would have cost more when i had mine done was if i couldnt get hold of any replacement dowls and they had to machine me some new ones as their obviously small and theres 3, other than that its an easy job!

tabetha

My last one was lightened from 8.9 to 6.6KG, skimmed and rebalanced for £30.
£100 is a piss take.
tabetha

MarK4

yeah it does sound high mate thats why i questioned it, its only a skim aswell nothing fancy.
ii'll probably take your advice and ring bensham, i think with the saving i'll make its more then worth my while...sounds like i could save £70!

MarK4

and remember its £100+vat so £117.50

cossiejay

£30 at mini sport burnley

Toe Knee

iTrader: (2)

well tbh if u give the place doing the work a quote from somewhere else they should in theory match the price, or by the sound of it stop taking the piss and charge u what it is actually costing not what their bunging ontop lol.

Are they doing more work aswell as the flywheel or just getting it skimmed for u?!

wirralphil

having you off.

MarK4

Supply and fit Helix organic clutch, fluid change aswell mate. I was gonna get the clutch else where but they brought there price down and almost matched it all by 25 quid so i thought i'd go with thats incase they blame the clutch i supplied if anything failed.

rstdave

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They're takin the piss, end of....by sound of it they've already tried it on with the price of the clutch

wirralphil

Their bumping the extra £25 back in the labour for the skim. Get the flywheel off them and get your local one to do it, tell them you want the same finish as on the outer of the flywheel.

Toe Knee

iTrader: (2)

well if their fitting the clutch for u anyway then if possible get them to do all of it but obviously get another quote first and then ask them why their charging u so much for a skim and see what they say!!

SiST

iTrader: (1)

Mine cost me 30 quid - over 100 quid is ridiculous

Mike Kerbey

iTrader: (1)

Had mine done at sutton rebore for about 45quid

7xrskb

iTrader: (1)

Asked for quote on a Zetec flywheel skim at a local engineering company and was quoted £15 which I thought was good so had my spare done as well and paid £25 for both.

£100 + vat is taking the piss.

tabetha

On a job like this my place only charges a straight labour rate, of £20 HR, took 1 1/2 hrs all in, I think it's well cheap, but I have put thousands thier way over the years!!
Man has been doing this stuff for 54 years, got engine dynos road dynos and a mass of machinary, bursting at the seams his building.
tabetha