CAM BELT DONE strong recommendation. (1 Viewer)

haganap

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I have had my Cam belt done today at a local small workshop whom does my MOT as well. I paid £293 including of VAT and this included a complete kit, with pulley wheels as well. He said he wouldn't do the job without changing them as well.

He gave me the belt afterward along with the changed pulleys.

Anyone in the Cheshire/ Stoke area need a job doing from a mechanic you can trust. What I call a real mechanic who treats each customer as if they were his only customer then I reccommend them..


The belt looks sort of OK, but I dont suppose you can ever really tell. I mean its not fraying or anything. :thumb:

Job done, everything ready for leaving for the Alps tomorrow am.:thumb:
 

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The cam belt is on my list to be done at the next service/mot which I think is next month.

Have a good time on the mountain haggers. :thumb:

Jim
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and i agree with him Paul....

you should never change the belt and not the pully's.

just think how many times they've rotated with nothing more than the inbuilt lube...:Eeek:

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YOU WERE ROBBED
WEDV'E DONE IT FOR £292.95
AND DISPOSED OF YOUR OLD PARTS:Doh::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
a Job well done Paul:thumb: Cam Belt Failures take no prisoners:Eeek:
 

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:Smile: Our 2004 Swift Suntor 630G had only 11,248 miles on the clock when we bought it last year. I thought it was a GOOD idea to do a FULL service and change all the Belts & Pulleys. It was just as well. Because there was RUST on the Pulleys and Belts where the Motor had been stood idle for long persiods of time. :thumb:
 
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YOU WERE ROBBED
WEDV'E DONE IT FOR £292.95
AND DISPOSED OF YOUR OLD PARTS:Doh::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
a Job well done Paul:thumb: Cam Belt Failures take no prisoners:Eeek:



I dont think so Sir,

By my thoughts my bill come to the same as yours would, ie £250 + vat? = £292.95. My being a very generous Motorhomer gave him £293-00 and told him to get himself a beer with the change? do you think that the tip was too little? I mean I know beers cheap in Stoke but now I am beginning to wonder if he thinks I have indeed ripped him off:Nowink::Confused:

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Have booked mine in for an MOT, Service and Belt change next Wednesday (17th), so hopefully we will be ready for the new season.
 
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:Smile: Our 2004 Swift Suntor 630G had only 11,248 miles on the clock when we bought it last year. I thought it was a GOOD idea to do a FULL service and change all the Belts & Pulleys. It was just as well. Because there was RUST on the Pulleys and Belts where the Motor had been stood idle for long persiods of time. :thumb:
you should never go by mileage alone that's why most manufacturers reccommend xxxxx miles or xx years whichever soonest - for those that don't do many miles per year.
Out of interest I was looking at our latest Autodata info and some of the the newer Fords have their belts replaced every 150,000 miles!! Wouldn't trust leaving it that long!
 

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I don't think there are many MH's that reach the necessary mileage before the elapsed time limit kicks in.

Doug...

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When we bought our MH, Dec 09 it had just short of 14,000 miles on a 2006 Fiat 2.8 .
We asked about the cam belt , as we had read what could happen if they went.
We were told that the MH had been fully serviced. If it was needed it would have been done. End of.
Now , how would you know if it did need doing, what would you look out for?
Im not mechanicaly minded Wouldnt know where to even look for it.
But Ralph is, I'll get him to look at the MH. Hes working away and staying in it at the moment. Better to be safe than sorry:winky:
Bev
 
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When we bought our MH, Dec 09 it had just short of 14,000 miles on a 2006 Fiat 2.8 .
We asked about the cam belt , as we had read what could happen if they went.
We were told that the MH had been fully serviced. If it was needed it would have been done. End of.
Now , how would you know if it did need doing, what would you look out for?
Im not mechanicaly minded Wouldnt know where to even look for it.
But Ralph is, I'll get him to look at the MH. Hes working away and staying in it at the moment. Better to be safe than sorry:winky:
Bev

I would more or less say that it will need doing. It hasf not reached its milage I expect I think its 65k for the Ducato (cue papajohn). there is no way a dealer would of done it to air on the side of caution, even a good one.
SO every 5 years it is meant to be done. Mine is a late 05 (december) . I chose to have it done on the basis that I would not take the risk. Especially after listening to what Geo said about the extreme cold weather we have been having. Add to that that we spend a lot of time heading for the coldest we can get to go skiing and there you have it. :thumb:
 
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Thanks for that , Ill get ralph to get it looked at by our mechanic pal.
Now go make sure youve packed everything !!
Bev

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You can't tell by just looking at the belt, it could look ok and then go the next day - hence the recommendations. You'll be surpirised the number of vehicles we get being presented for MOT's with the cambelt rattling away - some very lucky escapes and then again quite e few unlucky ones. Most people assume that when they have their car serviced the cambelt is automatically changed - not so, this is an extra job. Some vehicles - renault scenics in particular are quite involved and therefore quite expensive!!
A couple of years ago we had a mondeo in that had it's cambelt changed at Fords and they had not changed the tensioner, three months down the line the tensioner siezed and wrecked his engine - he went back to Fords and they didn't want to know, they just said the tensioner was OK at the time the belt was changed so it wasn't their fault. This is why we do not fit cambelts only but tensioners as well and in the case of VW's the waterpump is replaced at the same time (their recomendation).
 
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I would more or less say that it will need doing. It hasf not reached its milage I expect I think its 65k for the Ducato (cue papajohn). there is no way a dealer would of done it to air on the side of caution, even a good one.
SO every 5 years it is meant to be done. Mine is a late 05 (december) . I chose to have it done on the basis that I would not take the risk. Especially after listening to what Geo said about the extreme cold weather we have been having. Add to that that we spend a lot of time heading for the coldest we can get to go skiing and there you have it. :thumb:

i would agree with paul....

Geo said one, which the belt snapped on, that he did recently cost £1300 to rebuild the cylinder head.

£300 to renew the belt and pulley's seems a better option.

as for how would you know...the obvious giveaway is cracking and fraying of the belt and play in the pulley bearings and you really need to remove tension on the belt to check them but at 5 years i would have it done asap.

very cold weather will make the belt more brittle so will probably snap when you first start the engine. still do as much damage as running at 3000rpm though.
 

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Well Paul I've got to say im Green

no not because of your cambelt, we had ours done last October:thumb:

Not because im feeling a little off colour:cry:

and certainly not because we're enviromentally friendly,:ROFLMAO:

But of course because your off skiing for a week, and we're not:cry::cry:, I know its our choice, but right know wish we we're coming too

Have a Great time, see you soon

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I believe the 160 multijet is a chain and not a belt?Anyone know if this still needs changeing?
Dave
 
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I believe the 160 multijet is a chain and not a belt?Anyone know if this still needs changeing?
Dave

as I understand it Dave and Im no expert, I think (if it is a chain) the difference is that although it will need changing the intervals is far longer. Not even sure if age would effect it neither. Most cars used to have a chain and the problem was they became quite noisey as they stretched a bit and got slack. However far better a little noise than a big bang:Blush:
 
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Well Paul I've got to say im Green

no not because of your cambelt, we had ours done last October:thumb:

Not because im feeling a little off colour:cry:

and certainly not because we're enviromentally friendly,:ROFLMAO:

But of course because your off skiing for a week, and we're not:cry::cry:, I know its our choice, but right know wish we we're coming too

Have a Great time, see you soon

Don't be daft, just drop everything and come. :thumb:

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Be careful while you are sliding down wet, white, cold mountains with strips of fibre glass tied to your feet...

...remember you still have the Bizarre Bath Comedy Walk to do...

JJ
 

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Hi Paul N Nikki, Have a great time, will catch you at newark!

I have the Alde heating guy cumin out next Wed, so all will be warm again soon. The van goes in next week for the bodywork to be sorted out and a re-spray...........don't know what coulor to do it in?

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I believe the 160 multijet is a chain and not a belt?Anyone know if this still needs changeing?
Dave

All engines should have a chain, we have a merc sprinter fitted with a timing chain rather then a belt, the good thing being you should never have to worry about changing a chain.
We had a peugeot 505 GTD diesel did over 257.000miles engine never missed a beat again fitted with a chain rather than a belt.

Regards Rob.

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Be careful while you are sliding down wet, white, cold mountains with strips of fibre glass tied to your feet...

...remember you still have the Bizarre Bath Comedy Walk to do...

JJ

Thanks for the reminder JJ, I nearly forgot all about it. I meant to give the money To Road Runner John to take to Eilleen at the new year meet but completely forgot. I will PM her now for her address.

Now I know who Eilleen actually is :winky:
 

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Excuse my ignorance but I want to certain on such a potentially expensive issue.
We have been told our 2.2 Ducato Multijet 100 (a Ford engine apparantly) has a chain instead of a cambelt. Does this mean that all being well it should not need changing when a cambelt should?
 

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Excuse my ignorance but I want to certain on such a potentially expensive issue.
We have been told our 2.2 Ducato Multijet 100 (a Ford engine apparantly) has a chain instead of a cambelt. Does this mean that all being well it should not need changing when a cambelt should?

not sure about yours being a chain but if it is indeed a chain then dont worry, the chain should just about last as long as the engine.

the chain tensioner slipper pad will need changing from time to time but there is no set time scale for this and it could be 100'000.

you know when the slipper pad needs changing due to the severe rattling from the chain end of the engine.

all that said.....things may have changed over the years and there may be a recommended inspection time scale so worth asking at a fiat garage if theres no details in your FIAT service schedule handbook.

PS......just checked online and it is a chain and it is guaranteed for life.

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Just had my '03 2.8JTD Frankia done this week at South Yorkshire Motorhomes.

Cam belt & rollers = £ 76.59
5 hours labour @ £35.74 = £178.70
Sub Total = £255.29
Vat = £ 44.68
Total = £299.97

Did'nt fancy doing it myself as it's a swine to get at on the Frankia.
 

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as I understand it Dave and Im no expert, I think (if it is a chain) the difference is that although it will need changing the intervals is far longer. Not even sure if age would effect it neither. Most cars used to have a chain and the problem was they became quite noisey as they stretched a bit and got slack. However far better a little noise than a big bang:Blush:

The belt drive was introduced to aid quick cylinder head removal for rally cars, Escort BDA,(belt driven assembly}, and was adopted by most manufacturers purely as a cost saving exercise mores the pity.

Another plus for Mercs.:thumb:

Oh Cambeltdone Loch I wish you were whisky, Cambeltdone Loch Och Aye etc.etc.
 
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Cam belt, oil and filter changed and MOT.

Just had my cam belt changed, along with the oil and filter and the van MOT'd for £307.16 inc VAT.
I checked that it was a kit with all the pulleys etc and nearly snapped his hand off when he quoted £86 + VAT for the kit.
The van has only done 25000 miles but is on an 04 plate so it was overdue a change.
If anyone in the South Devon area needs this work carried out then just ask and I shall give details of the garage and phone number etc.:Smile:

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Can some one please tell me if a 2003 2-litre Ducato has a belt or chain camshaft drive? Fiat internet sources seem all over the place.
 

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Can some one please tell me if a 2003 2-litre Ducato has a belt or chain camshaft drive? Fiat internet sources seem all over the place.

Your FIAT handbook should tell you or the service book
Cheers, Dave:thumb:
 
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Can some one please tell me if a 2003 2-litre Ducato has a belt or chain camshaft drive? Fiat internet sources seem all over the place.

Well I had my 2003 2-0 jtd Ducato belt change shortly before I sold it a couple of years ago , so either I was ripped off and he pulled out a pair of stockins, or You have a belt :thumb:

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