markovr
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I will never buy a VZ for the above reasons. transverse originally or not, it should not cost $1200 (which my daughter paid) to change a thermostat on any car but specially on a car which trades on its reputation as "the AUSSIE car" back o' Bourke or the Black Stump and your thermostat fails. What do you do? Call for NRMA roadside assistance, tell them where you are and listen to the chorus of laughter from the phone. I doubt you would even get a tow from out there. I can, even in my feeble state, can change my VT thermostat in around 15 minutes. What were our favourite car makers thinking when they foisted this alloytec cr@p on us? I know my daughter was seen coming but I am seeing prices from $8-900 and up for this job. P!ssed is short of what I feel for my girl. She is very angry as well but her car is the family taxi so she had to get the job done. Thanks very much to the 3 or 4 workshops who quoted similar prices in and around Campbelltown NSW. Could you all be called Highwaymen?
Trouble is very labour intensive job....parts cost not so bad especially if you only go factory on parts that arent excessively expensive. I could have used a paper gasket from bursons on the thermostat housing and reused the housing and old or installed a aftermarket thermostat and aftermarket o rings and got out of it around 70 dollars but I bought the factory housing complete with new thermostat and factory 3 o rings and it was about 100 more....thing is its taken 11 years and 180k to let go and never been touched before that ...not really that bad.