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26th October 2019, 10:45 | #11 | |
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The enlargement actually works better in this instance, on my screen, so by your logic it must work well on your screen too. The pulley on the left is all you need to see. The pattern is repeated on the rest of the belt, as evidenced by scrolling.
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26th October 2019, 10:49 | #12 | |
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My post was aimed at people like us, who buy a car they want, get involved with the community, and even if they have little mechanical knowledge (for example, Me!) take time to understand the weak points of a particular model & strive to keep their car in as good condition as possible. I've seen far too many times on car clubs where people will spend hundreds of pounds on visual or performance modifications without taking the current condition of the car into account - to me this is crazy and these people are far from the sort who could claim ignorance when / if it all goes wrong. |
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26th October 2019, 10:58 | #13 |
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I have been guilty of that too lol. For me, it was a mistaken belief in value for money. If I couldnt see it, it was a waste of money. Along with the 'ostrich effect'. It wont happen to me - and it hasnt (yet!), but I know plenty that it has happened to.
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26th October 2019, 11:23 | #14 |
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The addition to my ‘collection’, a silver 2003 2.5 V6 Connie SE, that was my sons, that in exchange for an Audi Q5, they offered him nothing,they said it would go to auction which was to much trouble. A person who he works with said he would buy it off him, but only to break it up to sell. My son said it is to good to break up, so offered it to me. So. It will be checked over, and anything that needs doing, will be done. My son told me it has a broken rear spring, offside, so that means two new springs. With the current weather, all I have been able to do is clean up and check the nearside top arm where the spring sits, and it seems ok. This will eventually lead to either me doing the timing belts, they are overdue being 8 years old, or Lates getting the job, who did them last. When they are changed, I will keep them for analysis of the wear pattern, and post up what I find.The car was in everyday use for commuting, and regularly took his family on holidays, and fetched my granddaughter’s back from both Leeds and Manchester Universities, when it traversed the m/way at 70mph on cruise control. I can not wait to see what the timing belts are like.
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The first two digits indicates the year and the third and forth indicate the week number. So, in this case, it is a 2011 belt manufactured in week no. 32.
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26th October 2019, 16:03 | #16 |
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OK, so that confuses things. The previous owner said they had never been replaced, and the comprehensive service history that came with the car, also has no indication of belts having been replaced. Was a 1 owner car until I bought it. I guess if those numbers are correct can't argue with them.
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26th October 2019, 17:24 | #17 | |
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Since your car had only one previous owner John, and comprehensive service history was provided, I'd be inclined to not be deterred from your original understanding. Simon
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26th October 2019, 18:34 | #18 |
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How are those belts tensioned? Usually, by the time the car has done the service mileage, there is very little of the writing left on them, - worn off by the tensioner (and idler) pulleys.
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26th October 2019, 19:20 | #19 |
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There isn’t a tensioner on the rear belts
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26th October 2019, 20:22 | #20 |
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Has anyone known a R75/ZT timing belt to fail through old age/high mileage? I have always regularly changed the belts on the cars I've owned, by the way.
Ironically the only time I've had a belt fail was on Citroen BX 1.6 back in the Eighties at 22,000 miles, which I'd owned from new. Fortunately it was a non-interference engine and easily repaired under warranty.
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