Expensive Pump in a Vauxhall Diesel Engine

[ocho]

I don't know if anyone can help me out here but...

My wife's Astra Diesel has broken down and the garage have told me that a pump is knackered and needs to be replaced/fixed - both being pretty expensive. Here's the catch, I live in Spain and my command of the language doesn't quite stretch to the technicalities of modern automotive mechanicals...

They've told me its a pump of some sort and that a new replacement would be around 2,000 Euros, but it can be repaired (i.e. refurbed presumably) for 400-800 Euros. Both of these seem pretty pricy for a basic 1.7 TD engine - am I being ripped off here, or is there something I don't know about Diesels that they have such a pricey pump system.

Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
Jem

[pdV6]

Pass, but don't diesels have a very high pressure fuel system? Fuel pump, maybe?

[Andrew Noakes]

Diesels have an injection pump which controls fuel injection timing/quantity. Bound to be expensive if it dies.

[annodomini2]

Depends on the type of system and how old the car is.

Electronically controlled, pump timed and fuel demand systems can be quite expensive, but 2000euro's is expensive, even including fitting.

Would try somewhere else and get another quote.

[nighthawk]

The garage are probably trying to tell you that the main diesel injection pump is U/S, these things vary in price and in the UK, you'd be looking at around 500 to 700 pounds for a reconditioned pump from a VXLL dealer.

Repairs to the pump can cost almost as much tbh, so you really need to know whats happened to it, and more to the point, what caused it's demise?

fix the fault, not the symptom

The pump was a bosch unit I think on the 1.7d.

Is it a UK you've taken over there?
if so, mail order a pump, if it's a spanish car they may very well have different emission limits to the UK and you might be asking for trouble with smoke or power loss.
hope it helps

[numbnuts]

I have had a problem with one of these recently ,no fuel to injectors turned out to be the air flow meter , a common fault apparently ,if it was the pump you would have probably experience running problems before it broke down, just a thought!

[ocho]

thanks Chaps - I feel relatively happy that I'm not being taken to the cleaners now...

Cheers
Jem