Â£266 for a fking seatbelt!

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:39 pm

I just went to VW to get my seatbelt looked at, its stopped retracting....and the guy smiles at me and says, "yup that will be Â£266"...ridiculous

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:48 pm

I'm sure I asked vagparts what a set of all red seatbelts would cost and it was less than that for all of them - fair enough that doesn't include fitting but thats still a ripoff!

ticki · Post by **ticki** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:54 pm

SCRAP YARD!! Â£5

LiverpoloGTi · Post by **LiverpoloGTi** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:54 pm

Thieving bastards

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It seems to me that when setting their prices main dealers just double the price of any local VAG specialists. Everytime i've got a quote for work from VW its been at least double that of the next most expensive quote I got. And the one time I did pay VW to do the work on my car, I turned up to collect it early and saw that their 16 year old trainee was doing the work on his own!

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:56 pm

Keep me updated if you can, If you are able to attach different belts to your tensioners then I will only need the actual tensioner, when i asked the guy in VW he said that I would have to buy the whole thing costing Â£145 + VAT and Â£100 labour.

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:57 pm

I've tried scrappies but finding broken polo gti red seatbelts isn't easy, apparently they are different for 3 & 5 doors as well

LiverpoloGTi · Post by **LiverpoloGTi** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:40 pm

shantybeater wrote:apparently they are different for 3 & 5 doors as well

On my 5 door the seat belts are red with black edging.

Bryony84 · Post by **Bryony84** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:42 pm

That makes 4 different colours I've seen then, mine are all black, you can also get all red, red with black edging and black with red edging! Why not just make them all the same?!

LiverpoloGTi · Post by **LiverpoloGTi** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:45 pm

Bryony84 wrote:That makes 4 different colours I've seen then, mine are all black, you can also get all red, red with black edging and black with red edging! Why not just make them all the same?!

Now that I know this I want one of each on my car

Mouse_GTI · Post by **Mouse_GTI** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:09 pm

ticki wrote:SCRAP YARD!! Â£5

Or free if your sneaky

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:15 pm

no chance, how the hell do you take the whole thing off?

Mouse_GTI · Post by **Mouse_GTI** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:17 pm

You'd certainly need a bit of time

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:19 pm

i phoned a scrappy earlier and apparently the gti models have an airbag in them or some s**t...the scrappy sold one for 70 quid last week

vdubit · Post by **vdubit** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:26 pm

Theres no 'airbag' (pretensioner) on the gti belts. If yours are all red, metro gti ones will do the job as the fixtures are the same. Mine have black edges so i couldnt use them on mine. I have a set (of metro ones) if your interested.

Both of mine went (same symptons). I fixed them both once, then they went again, so i bought some 3 point harnesses in red instead.

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:47 am

metro?? How easy are they to fit ? and how much do you want for them?