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Blondie
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Joined: 16 Dec 2005
Posts: 66

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:26 am

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 Crying or Very sad

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 Very Happy
Chris H
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Joined: 02 Mar 2004
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:07 am

this is why you always change a belt on a new car unless theres PROOF of a recent change.

bad luck though!
Blondie
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Joined: 16 Dec 2005
Posts: 66

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:08 am

I know now.
Chris H
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:12 am

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!
Blondie
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Joined: 16 Dec 2005
Posts: 66

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:23 am

Yeh its ok. I had it serviced last month too! couldnt afford to get the cam belt changed though, typical
Neal
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Joined: 18 Feb 2004
Posts: 7432

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:20 am

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 Embarassed

Do it later yeah
Chris H
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:22 am

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.
Doc
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 2929

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:24 am

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.
1fast6
Level 5 User

Joined: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 112

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:46 pm

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.
Chris H
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:51 pm

as good as any tensioner, replace it next time
Blondie
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Joined: 16 Dec 2005
Posts: 66

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:39 pm

Garage phoned today, £395 to fix, i bent 4 valves, they're skimmin the head n changein the water pump cus thats fucked too.
hooverphonique
Level 6 User

Joined: 10 Nov 2005
Posts: 149

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:01 pm

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?
Chris H
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:09 pm

well thats not a 16V its a 1.4
Doc
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:40 am

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.
Blondie
Level 3 User

Joined: 16 Dec 2005
Posts: 66

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:53 am

Yeh a couple of other people told me that. Oh well, should be pickin her up tomorrow Very Happy
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