How to tell if your timing belt needs replacing?

[Dave_Bounce]

Ask him to put it in writing for you, that way you can sue him when the belt goes !

Yep, it's only the tensioner....

I wouldn't say he'd be as fast to put it in writing if he was going to be the one paying for everything that ceased to work once the belt breaks!!!ha

How much would you be looking at roughly getting the tensioner replaced?...from an independent I mean and not a dealer!!!

[Doctle Odd]

Which tensioner?

[Dave_Bounce]

I'm not quite sure...how many is there? I would consider myself to know a relative amount about cars but belt drives, timing belts etc wouldn't be my strong point. The noise is coming from what I was told was probably the tensioner which is allocated just by the alternator...or at least the noise is coming from that location...

[Doctle Odd]

Ah the drive belt tensioner, it shouldn't do too much damage in the short term

[Dave_Bounce]

That's a relief to hear...if it was something urgent and costly I would have been in the s**thouse as I have the dual mass flywheel to get done once I get a bit money together and we all know the dmf isn't the cheapest thing to get replaced ha

[Doctle Odd]

If the tensioner totally fails it can do a few hundreds worth of damage, it's neither expensive or hard to change