andywright455

No sorry VW charged me £260 for the chain kit and the lifters and it cost me £150 for my local garage to do the work although i have been mates with him for a long time ( and he is still my mate after making hime work a bank holiday weekend lol) what i did notice was that all the plastic parts in the engine bay were very brittle, and the aux water pump has rotted really badly under the rubber bracket so that will need changed soon another thing we found was that a pair of fiesta Mk2 rear brake adjusters make perfect cam locking tools almost made to measure

Just got my car back on the road today after 2 weeks and £400 When i heard the light rattle on idle i had hoped it was on the cheap side of the engine but no, A second opinion confirmed it was the chains , Oh Joy. anyhow long story short it was prettly painless (except the money) my local VW dealer had the bits in next day and i treated myself to some new lifters too as the old ones were getting a bit tappety. Going over this site i kind of knew that 100,000 was time to do the chains but i wasnt expecting how bad they would be at just under 91,000 both guides were broken and the bits that w