Hi all,
i have my 2008 LR2 in need of a serpentine belt as well as the tensioner and dampener,
What shop hours would I expect to accomplish the above?
Thx much,
Jim

 

Minimum of 8. Pick a shop that does lots of LR work. Don't pick one who's going use you as a learning tool.

 

I had a few quotes from local general shops at much less than 8 hours, but opted to have it trailered to a dedicated Land Rover shop that I know assuming they would be quicker and more familiar. They ended up charging me near 1k,
Either the Land Rover shop soaked me or the others didn’t know what they were getting in to. I hadn’t asked the LR shop for a quote assuming they would be inline or quicker than a general shop.
The general shops were quoting shop manual hours for the job.

 

My number came from the real world.

 

Thanks.
Aviator?
Me yes

 

Yes...

 

Commercial or military?

 

Private (Single/Multi/Glider) and aircrew in the Corps, CH-46 door gunner and avionics test crew. Once in a very long while I got stick time. I used to work for American Eagle in IT management in the late 90's. Did a project on my own time for the pilot academy to help them track pilot training and traded them time on the ERJ sims whenever they needed someone to fly them while they were training new instructors. Chief flight instructor sat one time with me to fly an approach into Rota, the CAE demo airport, said I flew and kept centerline on approach better than 90% of the captains he had trained and offered me a job. Only problem was that I did not have commercial or instrument tickets, and when I saw what an entry-level FO pays at a regional, I had a nightmare of my wife doing a Lorena Bobbitt on me for trading that for an IT management position salary.

That was end of that.

Now I am too old, too close to retirement age to fly for anyone. Maybe next life.

 

I bailed on IT to go fly in early 2001. I'm in a very good position now, but it was a looooong and bumpy road for many, many years.

Wife's job kept the lights on, that and military reserves.

Funny thing, with the pilot shortage, the entry level regional pilots now make well over six figures, get hired at a major quickly and then make $300k within a few years. I just have to shake my head.

 

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