Very loud rattle on my HDi

[Dan1292]

I've literally just bought a HDI as a run around car. And now it's making a very very loud rattling noise. Like plastic in a washing machine on a fast spin It does it constantly, worse when I accelerate. The noise is coming from the cam belt area and apparently it could be the crankshaft pulley? or the crankshaft damper pulley? Anyone had this before? I don't know what to do. Any help would be great!

[Eeyore]

get it checked out asap by the sounds of it! D:

[Oil-burner]

Could be the crank pulley or one of the tensioners on the aux belt, mine was the auto adjuster one, no biggie really!
Tbh I'd buy a aux belt and tensioner kit and do it all at once!

[kentiiboii]

I'd say pulley I had same problem.
Best thing to do is run your
Engine and listen inside your cam belt cover by hold a screw driver to the plastic and put it to your ear. Sounds daft but has helped me a lot!

Second I'd do is jack the car up and look at the aux belt from side view. When I had the problem looked at the pulley and you could tell straight away it was that.

[C2K]

Look at the pulley, it will be obviously knackered as the inner and outer probably aren't truly concentric any more.

[Dan1292]

Turned out to be the pulley, got it sorted today. Thanks everyone

[dan wiltshire]

Turned out to be the pulley, got it sorted today. Thanks everyone

How much it cost u ??

[Pugmarshall]

They're about £35 IIRC

[lolsteve]

Isn't the 307 one meant to be a better replacement or something?

[Poodle]

Yeah, single piece so won't die again.

[Ryan.306.com]

I had the same nosie....turned out to be the pully too. Most be a common thing with these!

[Poodle]

It is, very!