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[martin42]

Webby has,and that was within 15 mins of leaving symes place where cambelt change took place,valves bent,nasty smell of burnt rubber from belt area.

[Kate]

Webby has,and that was within 15 mins of leaving symes place where cambelt change took place,valves bent,nasty smell of burnt rubber from belt area.

So the cambelt failed after 15 minutes?

[martin42]

Yep,it happens,faulty part tho nothing to worry about 

[Kate]

Yep,it happens,faulty part tho nothing to worry about 

Did he get any compensation from the part manufacturer?

[martin42]

Dont know about that .

[serek]

I PM'd Serek but his inbox is full.

He really must be in demand.

pm replay

[serek]

Yep,it happens,faulty part tho nothing to worry about 

Did he get any compensation from the part manufacturer?

yes you get,  but take long time, I was wait for about 8 months, and SKF want head to check for damage too

[biggriffin]

I sense a OOF gathering at this rate,in the Huntingdon area

[biggriffin]

Yep,it happens,faulty part tho nothing to worry about 

Did he get any compensation from the part manufacturer?

had one fail 2 years ago on the 3.0L belt had been on for a week,tensionor bolt failed, bent valves etc, skf footed for all new gaskets,heads etc,
There was a faulty batch of tensionor bolts,but skf kept it quite.

[serek]

I sense a OOF gathering at this rate,in the Huntingdon area

btw heve you done oil change 

[Kate]

I've got 4 jobs that need doing:

1. Cambelt
2. One rear wheel bearing
3  Oil change
4. Speedo not working

I'll have about £300 available in a couple of weeks so that's obviously not going to pay for everything so what should I get done first?

[Nick W]

Oil change - do it yourself, it's £20 in parts, and very little equipment required.
Cambelt - £100 in parts, some time and expertise/equipment needed. BUT, it's critical for the car's long term and short term longevity. The belt breaking is likely to scrap the car.
Wheel bearing - £40 part, practice and tooling required but it will rumble for ages.
Speedo - could be any number of causes, so pricing it is very difficult.

[Entwood]

Oil change - do it yourself, it's £20 in parts, and very little equipment required.
Cambelt - £100 in parts, some time and expertise/equipment needed. BUT, it's critical for the car's long term and short term longevity. The belt breaking is likely to scrap the car.
Wheel bearing - £40 part, practice and tooling required but it will rumble for ages.
Speedo - could be any number of causes, so pricing it is very difficult.

As Nick says .. but my betting is the Speedo is the ABS ECU with a couple of bulbs also removed to hide it .. so ... £5 (or less) for the bulbs and an hours fiddling plus £130 for an ECU repair and another 2 hours swearing messing about.

The Speedo .. you asked if it was an MOT fail, I think it is .. but I know that the ABS light failing to illuminate is definitely an MOT fail nowadays

http://www.transportoffice.gov.uk/crt/doitonline/bl/mottestingmanualsandguides/mottestingmanualsandguides.htm

section 3.4 ...

[dazza88]

Has anyone on the oof ever had a cambelt fail?

  so now every time I get a car thats the first thing I do.

Ive had my 2.0l one go on me at a set of traffic lights but, it was a pain because it started rattling and noisy bearing sounds I brought all the bits to do on saturday and it snapped the friday was well gutted after that the block was no use unless got it rebuilt