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[Terbs]

Hi all.....

Both my Estates are due for Cambelts this year. Neither are anywhere near the mileage, but the 4 years are up. Is there anybody willing to come here and do both, Going rate paid, and food and drink supplied, even a bed if required.......or......if not too far away I could travel to you.
One is a 2.5, 2000 vintage, the other is a 2.6 2001 vintage.
My base is High Wycombe until September.

Here' hoping

[Entwood]

Contact Daz   http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=12562  he travels down from Stoke to Wiltshire  to do mine every 4 years !!  and I know he travels further if required !

His work is also second to none .. brilliant bloke 

[Nick W]

When would you like them done?

[Terbs]

Hi Nick....

I am here until September...anytime in that window to suit

[Doctor Gollum]

Can thoroughly recommend Nick W

[Terbs]

Yes, Dr G.....Nick has done work for me before, know him well

[terry paget]

Pulley bearings wear by the mile and belts age by the year. Original recommendation was to change both every 80,000 miles/8 years. This was later reduced to 40,000 miles/4 years. Belts rarely fail, it's the bearings that go. I suppose labour is the prime cost, but have you considered changing only the belts?

[Nick W]

Pulley bearings wear by the mile and belts age by the year. Original recommendation was to change both every 80,000 miles/8 years. This was later reduced to 40,000 miles/4 years. Belts rarely fail, it's the bearings that go. I suppose labour is the prime cost, but have you considered changing only the belts?

Belts fail too Terry,  it's just that the tensioner tends to fail first.
By your reasoning, changing the tensioners rather than the belt might be worth trying. In reality, trying to save £30 over 4years or 40k miles isn't worth the risk.

[jb]

Its the pulleys that are first failure. If you replaced the entire Cambelt Kit 4 years ago and are nowhere near 40k I would not even change the belt - 40k/8 yrs is well within the life of as belt.

[biggriffin]

Its the pulleys that are first failure. If you replaced the entire Cambelt Kit 4 years ago and are nowhere near 40k I would not even change the belt - 40k/8 yrs is well within the life of as belt.

Really.
The difference in price between a full kit and individual parts, it's not worth it.

[TheBoy]

I'm busy until at least start of August, but if you want to drop it off here and disappear for Sunday Roast round the corner....

[TheBoy]

But if you need done in Wycombe, use suggestion sabove

[terry paget]

The 2 Omegas I bought last year had not had cam belt changes for 100,000 miles. They had been serviced - oil, plugs etc., brakes and exhausts as MOTs required, and faults rectified. Cars over 10 years old have little value, so do not warrant major expenditure, like cam belt changes.  People drive them until they break, trade-in, or sell-on. Then we buy them.

[Terbs]

Thanks for your advice and replies, folks.
I have Nick coming up Friday to do both.
I appreciate the comments about the belts, etc, but I am a bit paranoid about breaking belts, etc. After having 4 break with other vehicles, and owing to family in the trade, I got off lightly with cost, and engine rebuilds. My Omega's are part of my way of life, and I hate to think of them becoming scrap for the sake of a few pounds.
It will be four years before they will be done again, as my mileage on any will not come to anywhere near 40,000. I can no longer call on family for repairs now, so have to rely on the good folk on here, and, imo, prevention is better than cure