Ouch. Big Bill Ahead I think.

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I was driving to work the other day when I heard a clunk and the battery light came on. I had no power and pulled over on to the hard shoulder. I was picked up by the AA who said the fan belt had gone, bit it sheared in such a way that he thought the timing mechanism may be affected. Oh dear !

I took it to my mates garage who replaced the fan belt but it still wouldn't work, saying the timing was affected but without a further look he couldn't say for sure. I am expecting worse case about £700 for the repair as if the valves are bent then the job is a big one.

I could do without this at the minute. I am hoping the belt has only affected a couple of teeth and that is the problem and a cheaper bill is on the way.
 
If it were another car I suppose I would get rid of it, but being a TDi A4 I think it is worth repairing as I will get another 100k and more from it when it's done. My plan was to run it into the ground anyway.

It has high miles .... 165k, but it has been excellent apart from this. I think it's worth the repair.
 
neil-ste said:
If you fancy taking it to an independant instead of the stealer Vee-Dubs in (place just along from Heworth Metro, can't think of the name yet, will come back and edit :p ) come highly reccomended, Gilly is the fella you want to speak to. I'll try and dig out some contact details if you'd like.

Thats appreciated bud, but it's in hand. Thank you though. :)
 
I just got the car back today.

9 weeks !

It's running great but I had a major haggle with the garage as it took a ridiculous amount of time. New fan belt, new timing belt, new glow plugs and the head had to come off.
 
djbenjo said:
And lots of new valves I would suppose too? Don't see how it could take 9 weeks. 9 days would be a bit of a push!

Aye, 5 bent so while the head was off I told him to replace them all as the A4 is my main runabout and it is high mileage so I should get a lot more miles out of the engine.

thebrasso, I did have a big wrangle with the garage for the 9 weeks and as a result I woun't go back. The MR2 has cost me a small fortune in using it for work in that time, it's not what I got it for.

I think a lot of other cars I would have scrapped when I think back to the Pug 1.1 I had and a 1.1 Fiesta, it wouldn't have been worth fixing but I think the Audi was worth it and I know exactly whats been done to it.
 
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