Cam belt tensioner

[Overseer]

lol.. i got a right to bash   ..the service guys there are brilliant.. its the sales people that are arses..

4.. i'll be stuck in me office.. bah... bahhhhhh.. weather is being dead weird!

[Bazzer]

just got the call to say it's done, no probs....

But the noise, which it wasn;t doing this morning when I dropped it off  he reckons was 'most probably the belt being a bit loose, and flapping around against the plastic housing'....     

My @rse it was!! If it was that loose, I'd have seen my valves and bits of camshaft following me down the road a long time ago!! BUT, I'll take him on his word and if the noise is there tomorrow on startup, he'll get it back!!

LMAO!!

[Overseer]

cool

am shocked they didnt try to blag on some extra work..

[Bazzer]

well, I'haven't picked it up yet!!

But I think he knew he couldn't blag me cos I knew what I was talking about!

[Bazzer]

well I picked it up at 5 yesterday, no extra work had been done, the only advisory was that I need a new brake fluid reservoir cap...

And the noise is well and truly gone. They said the cam belts stretch a bit on miley AGG engines (maybe ABF too?) and the noise is the belt slapping against the plastic cover...   

Anyway, now the car's back and re- timed, it's behaving like it's got a new cylinder!!  It wasn't bad before, but it's loads more pokey now!! Well, pokey for a mk3 (measure the speed in knots don't you?)