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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #15 on: 26 April 2007, 00:11:47 »
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...Official intervals are 40k...

...or 4 years...  ;)
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« Reply #16 on: 26 April 2007, 00:18:30 »
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DIY - the cambelt kit costs around £60-£90, and since it is also recommended to change the water pump you are looking at an extra £30-£40 for pump and coolant.

DIY? :o  Hahaha...... no

Home improvements maybe, computers custom build yeah, but I don't have enough know-how to risk hurting my beloved Omega! lol
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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #17 on: 26 April 2007, 00:27:31 »
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DIY - the cambelt kit costs around £60-£90, and since it is also recommended to change the water pump you are looking at an extra £30-£40 for pump and coolant.

DIY? :o  Hahaha...... no

Home improvements maybe, computers custom build yeah, but I don't have enough know-how to risk hurting my beloved Omega! lol

...run a search on 'cambelt party', that's one of the DIY options...

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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #18 on: 26 April 2007, 12:55:44 »
I am sure we can sort out a cambelt change for you in the next few weeks as you are in the right part of the world. :)

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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #19 on: 26 April 2007, 22:30:06 »
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I am sure we can sort out a cambelt change for you in the next few weeks as you are in the right part of the world. :)


Can't say fairer than that. :y

I had Vx timing belt kit & full service inc, plugs, air & oil filters etc + vat for £262.55
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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #20 on: 26 April 2007, 23:21:40 »
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I had Vx timing belt kit & full service inc, plugs, air & oil filters etc + vat for £262.55

Well that's better than what Vx dealer quoted, it was something like £475 inc. full service. But after spending £600 on it the week after I bought it the credit card's still reeling! (That and the missus would kill me if I spent much more on it atm!)  lol
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« Reply #21 on: 27 April 2007, 11:58:42 »
Sorry to hijack the thread (a bit), but I thought this was a weird one. When I put SWMBO's ZT in for cambelts, the garage took two days to do it because they had to order a tensioner (£135+vat) from rover. I enquired why they didn't have one in stock and the reply was "Because they hardly ever need changing" :o  So, I looked in the haynes and it says that cambelts are 90000 or five years, tensioner 100000. Now what kind of stupidity is that?

Get your belts done (no easy job) and then wait another 10000 miles and pay them to take it all to bits again >:(
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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #22 on: 27 April 2007, 12:08:39 »
Sounds fairly typical of Rover in the last few years. You did mean 100,000 miles not 1 million?

They do seem to wear differently on different cars. I've rebuilt Ford Zetec engines with 6 figure mileages and found the tensioners absolutely as-new. Ditto my Renault Laguna when I had the head off at 137,000.

I don't know if it's the quality of the bearings that VX use or that they have a harder life for some reason on the VX engines. Granted, I'm comparing single / twin cam 4 pots to quad cam V6's but the belt tension, temperatures, speeds, etc. must be roughly comparable.

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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #23 on: 27 April 2007, 12:12:04 »
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Sounds fairly typical of Rover in the last few years. You did mean 100,000 miles not 1 million?

They do seem to wear differently on different cars. I've rebuilt Ford Zetec engines with 6 figure mileages and found the tensioners absolutely as-new. Ditto my Renault Laguna when I had the head off at 137,000.

I don't know if it's the quality of the bearings that VX use or that they have a harder life for some reason on the VX engines. Granted, I'm comparing single / twin cam 4 pots to quad cam V6's but the belt tension, temperatures, speeds, etc. must be roughly comparable.

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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #24 on: 27 April 2007, 12:13:04 »
A million miles ;D Rover ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #25 on: 27 April 2007, 12:19:55 »
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Sounds fairly typical of Rover in the last few years. You did mean 100,000 miles not 1 million?

They do seem to wear differently on different cars. I've rebuilt Ford Zetec engines with 6 figure mileages and found the tensioners absolutely as-new. Ditto my Renault Laguna when I had the head off at 137,000.

I don't know if it's the quality of the bearings that VX use or that they have a harder life for some reason on the VX engines. Granted, I'm comparing single / twin cam 4 pots to quad cam V6's but the belt tension, temperatures, speeds, etc. must be roughly comparable.

Kevin

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I was scratching my head with that one  :-?
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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #26 on: 27 April 2007, 12:21:31 »
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A million miles ;D Rover ;D ;D ;D

I don't know... That's only about 20 Head Gasket's worth. Should be Ok as long as you don't skim the head each time!

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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #27 on: 27 April 2007, 12:29:31 »
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A million miles ;D Rover ;D ;D ;D
Even the Enterprise would need the tensioners done by then  :D
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Re: Importance of cambelt changes!
« Reply #28 on: 28 April 2007, 23:45:09 »
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Yep, when you get to 30k you should be thinking about it. Official intervals are 40k (forget the oft-quoted 80k), so to be on the safe side change between 30k and 35k.
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...or 4 years...  ;)
Checked the history earlier and it was done 30k and 3 years ago. Guess that's a job for some time this year then. :)
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