Hi all, My 96 volvo 850 is closed to 90K, and I want to have the timing belt and water pump replaced. I have been to two garages to check the price. One garage, which is specialized working on Volvo cars, give me the price right away, "$750 for the total service". However, when I check the price at the second garage, the price was just $512. There is more than $200 difference!
However, when I was asking the price at the second garage, the mechanic was using some kind of software to enter my car's information, then he gave me that price, which TELLS me that he works for any car's timing belt, or in other words, he may never work on a Volvo and just presume the same routing as how he works on other cars.
Since I know nothing about how these are being replaced, I guess my question is is there any speciality a mechanic needs to know before he works on a Volvo's replacement.
I want to save some money, but on the other hand, I do not want to have some side effect after the replacement, such as a mysterious dashboard light goes on, etc.
Thanks a lot and Happy new Year !
CJI
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