Hours In Labour For A Clutch

[Hogie]

Does anyone know how may hours roughly it takes to do a clutch on the CTS?

I used to have a mondeo and its an expensive enough job on those. Think part of the sub frame has to be dismantled. But then again can get up to 150k from a clutch, the CTS will probably have had two by then and be moving on to its third.

Anyone got any idea of the sort of job it is compared to other car, easy medium hard......

How many hour labour did you get charged for?

Cheers

[MarcTS]

I was at my local garage today as i've just had the gear box oil changed, and the guy had put a note on my invoice saying the clutch had a very high biting point and would need looking at some time in the near future, although there is no slip on it yet. So I asked him what the labour would be to get a new clutch fitted and he reckons it'll be about 4 hours work @ £50/hour, then you have the cost of the clutch on top of that.

So I guess the next question would be what are the best clutches out there for our car, and where can you buy them from? Same question for a fly wheel too as I reckon it's a good time to change it whilst the clutch is off.

[Hogie]

Good man, 4 hours....

I priced all the bits for a clutch from toyota before, release baring, pressure plate, I think it was around the €200 mark but it was awhile back , prob £170-180

My local garage in Ireland is €30 an hour and they are very good, toyota are €80. So in and around €300 for the job if done private, thats not to bad.

Its not a duel mass in the cts so ill be sticking with my standard flywheel, blue print are meant to be ok for clutches. Wouldn't know of anyone else.

Toyota have updated there clutch since my car was manufactured( 2003), because of its, and i think this is the technical term, crapness!!!!

Hard to know weather to go with them again, something they should have got right first time round!!!

Thanks for that man, thought this one was going to get filed under 0 replies :)

[MarcTS]

Good man, 4 hours....

I priced all the bits for a clutch from toyota before, release baring, pressure plate, I think it was around the €200 mark but it was awhile back , prob £170-180

My local garage in Ireland is €30 an hour and they are very good, toyota are €80. So in and around €300 for the job if done private, thats not to bad.

Its not a duel mass in the cts so ill be sticking with my standard flywheel, blue print are meant to be ok for clutches. Wouldn't know of anyone else.

Toyota have updated there clutch since my car was manufactured( 2003), because of its, and i think this is the technical term, crapness!!!!

Hard to know weather to go with them again, something they should have got right first time round!!!

Thanks for that man, thought this one was going to get filed under 0 replies :)

I was quite surprised when he quoted 4 hours as I thought it was a bigger job than that. If they stick to that figure though, I'll be happy. I have found an Exedy clutch kit (Clutch Disc/Drive Plate, Cover, Release Bearing) for £140 to I might try that, although I'd definitely prefer to get a proper consensus on what is up to the job before I commit as I don't want to end up with a useless clutch like the one Toyota supply as standard. I really don't want a Toyota one as I know people on here are on their 2nd/3rd and even 4th clutches direct from Toyota. They just don't seem to know how to make a decent one that works properly in the T-Sport.

[stoneyfordni]

that exedy would be a std replacement item , would you not be tempted to upgrade this if you are keeping the car a few years ?

look on US eBay for a trader called gripforce clutches , he is very good pricewise with exedy stage 1 clutches - organic and also fidanza flywheels , and with the dollar price still favorable , you'd be quids in and safe knowing its pretty much bomb proof

stephen

[MarcTS]

that exedy would be a std replacement item , would you not be tempted to upgrade this if you are keeping the car a few years ?

look on US ebay for a trader called gripforce clutches , he is very good pricewise with exedy stage 1 clutches - organic and also fidanza flywheels , and with the dollar price still favorable , you'd be quids in and safe knowing its pretty much bomb proof

stephen

Would you be talking about this one then? 170220998803

Also the fidanza fly wheel is about £100 cheaper from him too 150179956246

I'd have to contact him to see how much postage on those 2 items would be and how long they will take to come through.

Total excluding postage would be roughly £285

[stoneyfordni]

taken from an email from gripforce concerning fidanza wheel as advertised on eBay.com

Exedy stage 1 would be $350 and shipping and handling via Airmail is $129 for everything.

so this is on top of what the wheel is advertised on eBay.com

[Hogie]

Good man, 4 hours....

I priced all the bits for a clutch from toyota before, release baring, pressure plate, I think it was around the €200 mark but it was awhile back , prob £170-180

My local garage in Ireland is €30 an hour and they are very good, toyota are €80. So in and around €300 for the job if done private, thats not to bad.

Its not a duel mass in the cts so ill be sticking with my standard flywheel, blue print are meant to be ok for clutches. Wouldn't know of anyone else.

Toyota have updated there clutch since my car was manufactured( 2003), because of its, and i think this is the technical term, crapness!!!!

Hard to know weather to go with them again, something they should have got right first time round!!!

Thanks for that man, thought this one was going to get filed under 0 replies :)

I was quite surprised when he quoted 4 hours as I thought it was a bigger job than that. If they stick to that figure though, I'll be happy. I have found an Exedy clutch kit (Clutch Disc/Drive Plate, Cover, Release Bearing) for £140 to I might try that, although I'd definitely prefer to get a proper consensus on what is up to the job before I commit as I don't want to end up with a useless clutch like the one Toyota supply as standard. I really don't want a Toyota one as I know people on here are on their 2nd/3rd and even 4th clutches direct from Toyota. They just don't seem to know how to make a decent one that works properly in the T-Sport.

I dont want anything fancy, just a clutch that will last more than 50k min, not really a lot to ask for. I wouldn't even care to much about the price, as long as it will last. I never mind paying for quality

[MarcTS]

I dont want anything fancy, just a clutch that will last more than 50k min, not really a lot to ask for. I wouldn't even care to much about the price, as long as it will last. I never mind paying for quality

I'd stear clear of the Toyota one then as it isn't up to the job. ;)

[Hogie]

I dont want anything fancy, just a clutch that will last more than 50k min, not really a lot to ask for. I wouldn't even care to much about the price, as long as it will last. I never mind paying for quality

I'd stear clear of the Toyota one then as it isn't up to the job. ;)

Exactly, one that not made from spit and glue please :D

[MarcTS]

The prices for that guy on eBay in America are strange. He has the Corolla XRS, Matrix XRS and Celica GTS items all listed with different prices for the clutches and the fly wheels, yet as far as I am aware, they are all identical parts (same manufacturer model numbers). So I think it works out cheapest to buy the celica gts clutch and matrix xrs fly wheel >.<

[ae102]

the guidelines which garages have to work to - forget the name - says they can charge you either 5 or 6 hours, cant remember which. interestingly when i've had my clutches changed under warranty Vantage took 1.5 hrs and lindops took 2 hours - if warranty wasnt paying i would have been billed for 5 or 6 hours labour! shame you werent up my way - would be under £100 and trade on the clutch. You wont go wrong with a blueprint clutch. you could try a Ferodo clutch - that's who TRD get to make there's.

Hope that helps Rich

Did you hear about them parts? will PM you later.......

[MarcTS]

the guidelines which garages have to work to - forget the name - says they can charge you either 5 or 6 hours, cant remember which. interestingly when i've had my clutches changed under warranty Vantage took 1.5 hrs and lindops took 2 hours - if warranty wasnt paying i would have been billed for 5 or 6 hours labour! shame you werent up my way - would be under £100 and trade on the clutch. You wont go wrong with a blueprint clutch. you could try a Ferodo clutch - that's who TRD get to make there's.

Hope that helps Rich

Did you hear about them parts? will PM you later.......

Any ideas on where to pick up a blueprint clutch from?

[Hogie]

That's cheap, £100 labour, Ill prob go blueprint or Ferodo, they both should be good quality. And sure if it a 2 hour job all the better. Its got a bit of life left in it yet, ill prob get another few month out of it, driving in London traffic mite kill it thou.

http://www.blueprint-adl.co.uk/

Order it direct from them Minimarc if that the way you want to go. You'd want to be 100% sure the one from America will fit before you spend you money

[MarcTS]

That's cheap, £100 labour, Ill prob go blueprint or Ferodo, they both should be good quality. And sure if it a 2 hour job all the better. Its got a bit of life left in it yet, ill prob get another few month out of it, driving in London traffic mite kill it thou.

http://www.blueprint-adl.co.uk/

Order it direct from them Minimarc if that the way you want to go. You'd want to be 100% sure the one from America will fit before you spend you money

Do you think they'd supply and fit everything for free if I knocked them up an e-commerce site? :D