Interesting afternoon....

This is seriously gutting for myself and Ben (and a pita for Ben being stuck so far from home)

Working out options at the moment and yes I'm gonna foot the bill. Damn those morals! :criesalot:

At least Ben's ok. I'd hate for it to be a worse situation, which being on a motorway could have easily happened! :eek:

Just gotta pray for some decent news now. Cars can be a SERIOUS pain sometimes

Si
 
Its one of those mechanical failures, which could have happened at pretty much any time.

Hopefully not too big a bill.

To the seller,your conscience should be clear, to the buyer, I hope you budgeted for repairs mate.


Could have been worse - you could have had an accident on the way home perhaps ? -

Perspective. ;)
 
Damn it! Terrible news Ben! Here's hoping for the best!!

Although when I was changing the cambelt on the 420, with no tension it was seriously slack... a good 3-4 inches of play. So it could well be the tensioner has given up.

Whack a new belt on and find out :)
 
We've decided to go 50/50. Fairest option I think, big thanks to Si for being so great about it.
 
Sorry to hear about this guys.

Just goes to show that sometimes things do happen which are unknown of by the seller.

I mean, say Ben bought this car off of a random person I am sure he would be thinking he had been done over and the car was being sold for this reason. At least you know that is not the case with Si.

Si, you bought this ITR pretty much "as is" didn't you?

Ben, I think you made a good choice selling yours for this one despite this initial fault. Hope it's a cheap fix!
 
Props to Si for the help ;)

I hope it turns out as cheap, quick and pain free as it possibly can be to fix.
 
Gutted for you Both & respect to the Seller for Being a Stand up guy :cool:
In my experience it is never the belt & Always those Poxy Tensioners. Crappy nylon wheels with crap bearings to boot. I would have thought on your motor it's stainless steel so i would suspect the bearing in the tensioner. Either way Rip it out & upgrade the tensioner if it is only Nylon.
It is nearly always the tensioner slackening off & letting the belt skip a tooth or three :mad:
Fingers crossed for No Bent bits :)
 
when the tensioner dies on those, is it a matter of the belt possible skipping a few teeth then not being able to run... it may not have lunched itself.

is there a way to findout without taking the head off? i was thinking compression test, but youd have to put a new belt and tensioner on anyway.

what a pig!
 
Matt82 said:
is there a way to findout without taking the head off? i was thinking compression test, but youd have to put a new belt and tensioner on anyway.
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New belt and a quick compression test should reveal any bent valves, if indeed the cause of the problem really is the belt. It's not too bad a job doing the timing belt on the B series, at least it wasn't on mine and that had aircon to get in the way.

The tensioners are all steel (at least on mine), and I've not heard about any catastrophic failures like the Poxhaul plastic ones were reknown for.
 
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