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Blondie
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Joined: 16 Dec 2005
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Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:26 am |
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Hey, havent been on here for a while, thought I'd just update you all.
I bought a new bonnet, 16v williams one, £21 off ebay. Was getting quotes to get it re-sprayed when...
...the cam belt snapped AND the head gasket went on my clio 
Luckily my step sister works at The Nationwide Autocentre and has got me a discount so its only costing around £400 to fix it.
Then Im going to get a loan and do the car up cus I'm fed up of tying to save and do it bit by bit.
Anyway, hope ur all ok  |
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Chris H
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Joined: 02 Mar 2004
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:07 am |
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this is why you always change a belt on a new car unless theres PROOF of a recent change.
bad luck though! |
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Blondie
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Joined: 16 Dec 2005
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:08 am |
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Chris H
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:12 am |
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yep you found out the hard way!
Anyway thats a fair price for the rectification tbh.
next time you get a car get the belt done asap! |
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Blondie
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Joined: 16 Dec 2005
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:23 am |
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Yeh its ok. I had it serviced last month too! couldnt afford to get the cam belt changed though, typical |
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Neal
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Joined: 18 Feb 2004
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:20 am |
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I still haven't changed the belt on my chammy, working on the assumption it was done with the headgasket, which was allegedly done just before I bought it 
Do it later yeah |
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Chris H
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:22 am |
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docs old 25 quid hatch which sat for a year still hasn't had the belt changed and its still going.
The exec needs one as does the hatch, the hatch will get it when the engines out. |
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Doc
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 2929
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:24 am |
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True, it still goes on.
I think it was done about 20K ago according to the service book. TBH that dont mean anything as they dont have registrations on the books. |
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1fast6
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Joined: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 112
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:46 pm |
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How good is the tensioner on the energy? No idea how old the one is installed at the moment but i didn't bother replacing it on my last car last time i changed the cambelt. Tempted to this time but it seemed ok when i removed it to do the water pump. |
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Chris H
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Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:51 pm |
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as good as any tensioner, replace it next time |
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Blondie
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Joined: 16 Dec 2005
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Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:39 pm |
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Garage phoned today, £395 to fix, i bent 4 valves, they're skimmin the head n changein the water pump cus thats fucked too. |
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hooverphonique
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Joined: 10 Nov 2005
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:01 pm |
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watching this forum, i get the impression that the cam belt on the 16v's snap like theres no tomorrow... am i just waiting for this to happen? i dont know when the tensioners were changed, but the belt was changed 3 years ago.. 30kms... which is what? 20k miles? |
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Chris H
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:09 pm |
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well thats not a 16V its a 1.4 |
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Doc
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
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Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:40 am |
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IMO your belt broke because of the waterpump blondie.
I've had 2 1.4 19's and both times the belt snapped because the waterpump was pissing boiling water over it.
fortunatly the 16v's that I've had have been better in that respect. |
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Blondie
Level 3 User
Joined: 16 Dec 2005
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Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:53 am |
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Yeh a couple of other people told me that. Oh well, should be pickin her up tomorrow |
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