anyone had a cambelt failure?
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A friend of mine had his water pump sieze up which caused the belt to almost fail, it jumped a couple of teeth but luckilly he didnt suffer any valve damage!
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i had one,air con tensioner broke (so i was told),shattered the cam pulley tore the belt in 2,after a few turns realised something was seriously wrong but again repleced the belt and pulley and away it went no problems that was over a year ago.
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I had my 90k'er (cambelt) done at Zen about 6 weeks ago and, (assuming it was previously replaced at the scheduled 45k), the old one was in remarkably good condition - no signs of serious glazing, cracking, etc. (was nice to know that I wasn't on borrowed time!). Indeed, it was the air-con and alternator belts that were past it - rather them than the cambelt, eh?
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3 weeks ago my cambelt tensioner on my 22k 05 wrx failed on start up, it has snapped 1 valve, bent 3 others and wrecked the piston & valve seat, about £2100 worth of work , i would be interested to hear from others who have experienced such a failure.
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