First Car - Have I been ripped off??

[Dead Eye]

Given your history with the garage, just stay away - go somewhere else. They don't sound overly competent and by the sounds of things I'm going to guess that they didn't change the fluid.

With the fan belt, it sounds like the new belt has alleviated some of the problem, but hasn't fully cured the issue - as a complete guess I'd be looking at the tensioner personally. The new belt is obviously slightly more taught... you know, because its new, so the squealing has been reduced. Leads me to think that the belt just needs to be tensioned a bit more - but I fully accept that I could be wrong and obviously get a qualified mechanic to check it out.

You are right that a lot of manufacturers don't put the glow plugs down as a service item - personally I consider them to be and would usually be looking to replace them around the 100-120k mark as a matter of course.



All of your cambelt changes are so cheap The disadvantage of a V6... half the garages don't want to touch it and the ones that will quote silly money (£1k+) Cheapest I've ever seen is £650 and that was somewhere up north...