Am I being over charged for fixing my car?

HI

That sounds awful high.. to me.. Get a second opinion.. or quote. I'd be a little concerned ... as you do not machine a head gasket you machine a head, head gaskets are bought over the parts counter. In order to replace/repair the head you would have to remove the timing belt so they are probably going to charge you the full time to replace the belt and the full time to replace the head separately. I also would try and permanently mark the head some where with a nick or something just to make sure they DID replace the head if that is what they are going to do.. A lot of times you just need to replace the gasket not the head unless it got overly hot and warped the head.

I'm just a specious person sense I do my own work.

good luck

tim

The Head needs to be machined and the head gasket is replaced when reinstalling the head. $1200 is the outer limit but not unreasonable.

Sounds a little high to me, but don't take my word for it, all the mechanical work I've done was only for the price of parts and a $10 service fee. Just tell them you want to keep any parts they take off the car, that you want to see the R.O. when they are finished, and that you want them to call you before they do anything else. And be sure to read anything they want you to sign. If you do all that they can't rip you off, if they do you have everything you need to sue them for much much more than $1,200.

That actually sounds pretty good. Usually a timing belt (broad generalization) will run a couple hundred bucks by itself and machine shop work is never cheap.

im assuming that its a V6 and you mean that it needs one of the heads machined and the Other replaced...

that sounds about right, but it never hurts to have someone els look at it it might not need as much work done as you think.

Not expensive, not cheap.