What the garage says about my LanoTiming Belt Tensioner
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What the garage says about my LanoTiming Belt Tensioner
I dont know a lot about engines but I just put in my Lanos SX 1.6 DOHC for a timing belt replacement at 60000miles. The garage just rang me up to say the tensioner is missing and must have be broken and I have to pay for a new one. Do you lose tensioners during normal running or has the mechanic broken my tensioner and is getting me to pay for his mistake? Please help!? :0(
this is bullshit but it doesn't matter anyways... here is why :
if you went to replace the timeing belt just because you hit the 60,000 miles mark and wanted to change it (i.e. the belt was Ok and the car was running flawless) then they broke the tensioner for sure.
you can break the tensioner during driving indeed but that will be assosiated with dead engine and broken valves... the whole nine yards, if you don't have that then your tensioner was working fine untill you went to that garage.
as for "losing" the tensioner... that could only happen if you were Houdini, the timing mechanism is in a closed plastic box and their is no way the tensioner could get out unless it break through the plastic cover and that will be associated with sevear engine damage and loud noises that you can't miss.
the failing tensioner is as bad as a broken belt so if that happens and you lost your tensioner you will bend your valves and then your engine will stop not to mention the scattred plastic parts all over the engine bay due to the "lost" tensioner.
what the garag said about the "missing" tensioner is just unbelivable and their is no way that could have happened... not in a million years.
anyways it doesn't matter 'cause i was going to suggest a new tensioner anyways along with new idler pully and water pump as well... those parts will require the same amount of work you are currently doing right now in case you wanted to replace them later not to mention that a failing tensioner or idling pully is as bad as a failing timing belt.
MMamdouh
if you went to replace the timeing belt just because you hit the 60,000 miles mark and wanted to change it (i.e. the belt was Ok and the car was running flawless) then they broke the tensioner for sure.
you can break the tensioner during driving indeed but that will be assosiated with dead engine and broken valves... the whole nine yards, if you don't have that then your tensioner was working fine untill you went to that garage.
as for "losing" the tensioner... that could only happen if you were Houdini, the timing mechanism is in a closed plastic box and their is no way the tensioner could get out unless it break through the plastic cover and that will be associated with sevear engine damage and loud noises that you can't miss.
the failing tensioner is as bad as a broken belt so if that happens and you lost your tensioner you will bend your valves and then your engine will stop not to mention the scattred plastic parts all over the engine bay due to the "lost" tensioner.
what the garag said about the "missing" tensioner is just unbelivable and their is no way that could have happened... not in a million years.
anyways it doesn't matter 'cause i was going to suggest a new tensioner anyways along with new idler pully and water pump as well... those parts will require the same amount of work you are currently doing right now in case you wanted to replace them later not to mention that a failing tensioner or idling pully is as bad as a failing timing belt.
MMamdouh
Last edited by MMamdouh on Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:22 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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I agree in 100% with mmamdouh, if you had no tensioner, the car would not run at all.... So the mechanic shop is basically trying to rip you off.
No tension on the timing belt (produced by the tensioner, as the name suggests), would cause the timing belt to slip, therefore the camshafts would not move and would not open/close the valves.
No tension on the timing belt (produced by the tensioner, as the name suggests), would cause the timing belt to slip, therefore the camshafts would not move and would not open/close the valves.
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