28-04-2012, 09:51 AM
HI Everyone,
Right got good news I have rapped this one up, got the new Dayco kit fitted at mates rates at a proper Pug main dealer (Also new metal water pump). The engine is now silky smooth!
I asked for them to leave me the old parts to Inspect and as suspected the tensioner pulley had about 0.5 mm of play in it which is massively unacceptable for a cambelt part! The Cambelt kit put in before was some Chinese brand I didn't recognize, looks like they are bollocks. The Peugeot engineer also said he checked the old belt tension digitally, whihc we did out of interest and the previous garage had the tension wildly too high (even after some stretching I imagine). So pretty much zero marks for the old garage.
So I'm happy and the job has been done so hopefully wont have to worry about that again! Moral of the story, get premium Cambelt kits fitted!
Right got good news I have rapped this one up, got the new Dayco kit fitted at mates rates at a proper Pug main dealer (Also new metal water pump). The engine is now silky smooth!
I asked for them to leave me the old parts to Inspect and as suspected the tensioner pulley had about 0.5 mm of play in it which is massively unacceptable for a cambelt part! The Cambelt kit put in before was some Chinese brand I didn't recognize, looks like they are bollocks. The Peugeot engineer also said he checked the old belt tension digitally, whihc we did out of interest and the previous garage had the tension wildly too high (even after some stretching I imagine). So pretty much zero marks for the old garage.
So I'm happy and the job has been done so hopefully wont have to worry about that again! Moral of the story, get premium Cambelt kits fitted!
