How much Labour to fit exhaust????

[AshFR]

Just spoke to awesome and was thinking about them fitting a turbo back milltek exhaust nad they said it would be about £130 for 2 hours labour fitting. How muchhhhhhh. Thats over £60 per hour. So the question is, is it easy to fit yourself? Ive heard about some people having trouble unbolting downpipe from turbo as the studs are siezed. I do enjoy working on my own car but i wouldnt want to get halfway through removing exhaust and snapping a bolt off so i have no car for a bit. How many people have expeienced this? Also does the car need to be right up in the air or will some ramps to drive up do the trick? Another option would be taking it to the garage i deal with normally as they only charge about £20 an hour. I was going to get awesome to remap it aswell but its a about a 180mile drive round trip and just for a remap i dont think it would be worth it. Im in Shropshire, West Midlands. Any decent mappers around in the west mids? Thanks.

 

[gdjohny]

I have changed exhaust from turbo to the backbox on my TDI by myself.
Its easy but it takes a lot of time. I have a pit in my garage which helped a lot. If your aftermarket exhaust is in one piece ( rear section ) it will be much harder- it have to go over the rear beam.
Any link to your system ?

 

[gdjohny]

as for remap : I am always using my friend from Sweeden
I am downloading software from my car with the cables I have , then i am doing logs and I am sending him the lot so he can work his magic on it. After a day or two he sends me back ready software. Never had problems with him
He is the founder of the forum ***************

 

[AshFR]

I have changed exhaust from turbo to the backbox on my TDI by myself.
Its easy but it takes a lot of time. I have a pit in my garage which helped a lot. If your aftermarket exhaust is in one piece ( rear section ) it will be much harder- it have to go over the rear beam.
Any link to your system ?

Fair enough. I dont mind it taking alot of time, its just any problems lol. I also heard someone on about taking the subframe off aswell. Is this really needed?

Heres the links:

Downpipe - http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/product.php?xProd=6099&xSec=350
Exhaust - http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/product.php?xProd=6097&xSec=350

 

[cocadave]

however on the plus side, driving back home with the new exhaust and remap will be interesting

 

[AshFR]

however on the plus side, driving back home with the new exhaust and remap will be interesting

Yes it would. But i cant justify paying someone £130 to fit a exhaust when i can do it myself and have done on both my old cars lol. Its just the snapping bolts on turbo im worried about

 

[Dan1720v]

You should be alright tbh, the 1.9 has the turbo downpipe the 'right' side so you can access it through the bay.

 

[AshFR]

Fair enough. Thanks people. Will order it monday i think. I will have a look and if it looks a bit hard to do when car in on ramps, i will drop it in to the garage and get them to fit it. Thanks

 

[cooky25]

I'd say if you were going to do it yourself, soak the bolts in some kind of penetrating fluid for about half an hour or so before you start.

Also if undoing a rusty bolt, slacken a little bit, then go the opposite way slightly (like using a tap to make a new thread) to get them off without breaking them.

Hope this helps

 

[Raks]

Rj Tuning Birmingham, well priced. I use him all the time

 

[Nam-uk]

awesome Quoted me £60 fitted around 6 months ago for a miltek.

 

[M20FES]

Ash, awesome charged me £75 for 1.5 hours fitting my turbo back milltek which was only like 2 weeks ago.

Don't know if I got a discount on that price cause I had other work done at the same time.

Having said that I had to pay an extra £110 labour for the stud removal and re-tapping of the turbo to downpipe, so my total labour costs for it was £185

Look at this too
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=330693&highlight=Turbo+bolts+snapped