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Now neglecting your own car is one thing, but advising others they should follow suit is quite frankly stupid. It's just as well you believe your own rhetoric though, as based upon the time it is taking you to carry out the belt change on your own car, the belts will be time expired once you box it back up So is it running, or are you considering examining the minutiae of camshaft cover bolts, then running another thread, in order to spin the job out for another couple of months What do they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, well that applies to those with little knowledge, and your advice is based on luck and speculative "engineering" practice and as such cannot be classed as sound advice, but rather bad advice Keep up the good work, I'm running a book on the longest KV6 belt change in history Brian |
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If you want cheap, contact Daniel blewitt on the rewmm Facebook group. He's based in Dudley I believe. I've not had any personal experience with him myself, but he is charging £250 to supply and fit belts to a V6.
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It doesn't work and can spill disaster for your car and your pockets. My method if the manual says too change at 90,000 miles I'll change it well before at 60,000/70,000 miles too be sure as I don't want my car dead. While the belts are being done saving you having too take apart again in the near future change everything while you there. Water Pump. Thermal stat. Tensioners the lot. Gives you reassurance for the future of ownership. Simon just take note. All sorts of things come into play where belts life are concerned, One is how much is the car used, 2 do you boot it higher revs can deteriote during hard drivering, 3 leaks is there any power steering fluid oil coolant etc going on the belts? Had one customer who had a sever power steering leaking on the AC belts Advised him that could need replacing as there was a lot, this stuff penetrates rubber. He said no and I thought fair enough, he never bortherd, few days later he calls me and he's broken down by plas menai, Went over too see and ta da the AC belt snapped. His fist thing he said was fine beep it wasn't my cam belts, I asked when was it changed he said god knows. Do you want me too book you in, straight away he said hell yes. He didn't want too take the risk. You've been lucky so far Simon you really have, But I wouldn't risk going over that interval at all its a bad move that can destroy a well and truly cherished motor.
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Just to add to the list of specialists being recommended, Lates also knows his onions when it comes to cambelts.
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