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28th May 2018, 00:19 | #21 |
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Personally, my belts aren't due for another 4 years, so I won't take that risk at the moment, but I guess if someone is really hard up and needs them doing, they may take the risk and try him out. |
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29th May 2018, 07:29 | #23 |
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A certain Geordie MGR specialist in my area, who has posted on this thread,goes by the saying “ buy cheap,and pay twice,or even thrice”.
So you apys your money and takes your choice. At £250? I would steer very clear.
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As a personal contribution, I may add that belts & pump were fully serviced by the second owner in 2014, 70k miles on the odo, and they were the genuine ones, so they lasted 15 years.
But I don't want to say I'm giving any advice of the kind, just a testimony. Now the 2014 ones have made 32k miles only within 4 years. I'll have a good & close check in 2020 with my mechanic. If I can, I'll try to gain 2 years until 2022, given I'm doing only 6k miles a year or thereabouts. I hope I'll not take too huge a risk... The car is very well cared for now, every niggles & gremlins already expelled or in progress and I'm looking under the bonnet almost every week.
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I hope that MarinaBrian takes note, though I doubt that he will. He’ll no doubt claim that the second owner was “lucky” too, along with other testimonies on the same theme. Quote:
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Manufacturers of rubber products place a date of manufacture on their items? this is because they have a shelf life, best before date, call it as you wish. In particular, your own front belt was stretched, as evidenced by your own picture, and Gates the manufacturer state a shelf life of five years, so why is that? money making venture. Rubber degrades, hardens, and certainly on older engines especially ones that have not been run regularly, acquire a "set" You can't seem to grasp the manufacturers give this servicing advice for a very valid reason, and it is not simply to make money. Now I have dealt personally with two KV6 front belt failures, and for the sake of adhering to the correct servicing schedule these were totally avoidable. Brian |
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8th June 2018, 11:32 | #28 |
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The penalty for ignoring professional advice, and that's all it is, advice, is your own risk if you are minded to take that route.
The difference between the low price (by an unknown hand) and the highest (by an expert on here with a reputation to safeguard) on average is, what, around £100? On the other hand, consider your tyres. They revolve as many times as your cam belt and pulleys. If it was suggested that you leave them on, or even buy tyres that had not been used but were 8 years old - would you? Then consider the possibility of you changing your car at some time in the future. If you were buying another and choosing between two, one with the job done and another that wasn't, which one would you opt for, and even pay more for? Most people ask the question before they actually travel to see it!
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So, less of the preaching please Brian and more intelligent engineering debate. Simon
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It's a bit like playing Russian roulette, keep pulling that trigger and eventually it will go bang
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