• Spoke to the garage, turns out that when they fitted the new water pump (£550) they didn't fit a new belt (£30) or a new tensioner (£80), but would have inspected them to make sure they weren't visibly fucked.

    I'd rather have spent the extra £110 and not spent three hours sitting on a curb yesterday waiting for the AA.

  • That's a pretty poor decision by them!

    Glad it's an easy fix. Probably worth asking them which other relatively "minor" items they inspected and deemed not necessary to replace yet.

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