LS400 Cambelt - mechanic competency

[Herbie]

My RX300 had new belt, idler/tensioner, water pump 10l new coolant and labour for £460 all in, done by a really good indy garage that was personally recommended.

Like I said, no need to pay dealer prices at all

[Razor61]

Not all Lexus dealers charge the earth for LS400 work, Lexus Bolton didn’t when I had a lot of work done in November last year. List of the work I had done is in the link below and it cost £1500. At the time, I asked about the cost for replacing the timing belt and was told they can do it for £400 and £500 for timing belt and water pump which I didn’t think was bad at all that’s why I had Lexus Bolton do it plus the other work. Some dealers like working on the original LS, want to help keep them running/on the road and appreciate the costs can be high so help as much as they can. Judging by the quoted cost in this post, Lexus Bolton definitely helped me! There are quite a few people at Lexus Bolton who were involved with the original launch of the LS400 at Toyota dealerships so they like getting one in to work on and talking about them which is really good.

 

[ambermarine]

15 hours ago, J4ck100 said:

Good afternoon Jack, 

Thank you very much for your email. 

Please note we would advise to replace the water pump and tensioners in replacing the timing belt as if the water pump fails in the near future you would have to do those again. 

The total cost for this work is £1523.40 Incl vat. 

We could arrange an appointment for later on this week and would need the vehicle for at least a day.

They are extracting the urine.

[royoftherovers]

16 minutes ago, ambermarine said:

They are extracting the urine.

Big difference between Surrey and Bolton Phil and between them lies the Rubicon !