New Timing Belt needed

Hi,

I shall soon need to replace my timing belt. Was wondering what sort of
a price would I be looking at. I was shocked when the dealer said it
would cost be nearly 2K dollars for the timing belt. The belt kit
retails at aroung 300$ in the internet and add to it say 4 hours of
labour @ even 100$ per hour would cost me much less that what the
dealers say.

I was also wondering what would be the other parts that I shall need to
replace prventively for a 1999 A4 1.8T Quattro.

Thanks
Vish

<vishwanathj.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I shall soon need to replace my timing belt. Was wondering what sort of
> a price would I be looking at. I was shocked when the dealer said it
> would cost be nearly 2K dollars for the timing belt. The belt kit
> retails at aroung 300$ in the internet and add to it say 4 hours of
> labour @ even 100$ per hour would cost me much less that what the
> dealers say.
>
> I was also wondering what would be the other parts that I shall need to
> replace prventively for a 1999 A4 1.8T Quattro.
>
> Thanks
> Vish
>
$2K is way too much. A good independent should do it for half that. Also
replace water pump, tensioners and probably thermostat. The reason to
replace the water pump is that the odds are great that you will have to
replace the WP before you have to do the TB again. Also failure of WP or
tensioners can lead to failure of the TB so do it all at once. Theremostats
are quite cheap so might as well replace it too.