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Title: Lucky....
Post by: Rhyso on 23 August 2005, 17:02

for a change anyhoo!!!   :grin:

Just picked my car up from the garage after having the cam belt & tensioner done. Bloke showed me the state of the previous items.

Cam belt was ok but was slowly being eaten by the tensioner!!!  Few hundred miles or so and bang - bent valves, knackered car!!!   :cry:

Nice to be lucky for a change!!! Normally things go wrong BEFORE i get round to sorting them!!!   :embarassed:

Title: Re: Lucky....
Post by: kniterider on 23 August 2005, 17:06

nice when it works that way :smiley: for some it dosnt..... me self included... just thumbing through all me mk4 history paperwork etc as hoping to get rid tomorrow..... damn it cost me loads when it went bang last year :cry: :cry:

Title: Re: Lucky....
Post by: Rhyso on 23 August 2005, 17:22

I know; my car has cost me loads in the 15 months I've had it.  :sad:

Practically every part has been replaced!! Done my bank balance no favours whatsoever!!!  If the engine had gone I'd don't think I could have put up with it  :sad:

Title: Re: Lucky....
Post by: scottyboy on 23 August 2005, 17:25

that is so lucky mate  :shocked:

Title: Re: Lucky....
Post by: Dinky on 23 August 2005, 17:32

dude..super lucky!!

Dinx :kiss:

Title: Re: Lucky....
Post by: Martz on 24 August 2005, 12:25

My A3 went pop after the cam belt snapped. £1300 later! :cry:

Sold the barsteward straight after.

Title: Re: Lucky....
Post by: Overseer on 24 August 2005, 12:34

dead lucky :)


when i first got my valver i had about 3 people mention the cambelt within a week of me getting it.. so i got it done right away as i had little history

Title: Re: Lucky....
Post by: Martz on 24 August 2005, 12:53

Thats the first thing I change now in any new car I get. Learnt once fingers burnt.

Title: Re: Lucky....
Post by: Rhyso on 24 August 2005, 14:59

Its certainly something I'll be paying more attention to in the future!!  When I had the car last year it had next to no service history but my dad's mate had been servicing it so didn't think anything of it.  Let's just say I won't trust what he says!!

It would have been cheaper to build a new car with the amount of work I've had done to it!!   :shocked: