Aux belt horror story!

[SBV116]

This is why people who don't know what they are doing shouldnt touch clio drive belt / cambelts!!

Its a member off here, was brought in today for an auxiliary belt kit, after a bit of confusion, owner thought it had been replaced then realised it hadn't and the old one had just been refit!!

So i started to strip it down and met this.....

Please excuse the crap pic quality!

The tensioner with bits missing!

The bottom torx bit on the tensioner spring, as you can see its not tight, and i havent undone it, thats how it was on the car, can spin it with your fingers now there is no tension on it!!

The top torx bit, extremely mullered, obviously been put in with mole grips last time around, and again was not tight, there were 2 or 3 threads visible!!

Apart from this the allen key that holds the tensioner on was only nipped, was not as tigh as it should be!!

To be fair i cannot believe the bare faced cheek that somebody thinks this work is upto standard!! I would not expect to pay for that kind of quality!

 

[Gaz_]

Looks like i had a go tbh

 

[Jamesstone]

Scary

In future you should fit Aux belts properly & stop blaiming other people for your shuddy work!















LOL :rasp:

Have seen some john wayne stuff myself, mainly on the audio side of things :dead: scary what some peoples standards are :nono:

 

[Middo]

i'm guessing you've checked your records to make sure you didn't do the last service

 

[SBV116]

^^ ha ha ha.... what are you doing on here, actually we DID do the last service not the aux belt / cambelt though!!!

It has been like that for 30K aswell!!

Did the dog enjoy its walky?

 

[DrR]

Good effort that.

 

[martandem]

Blimey, how did that not explode?! What i know about belts you could fit on the back of a stamp but even that tells me that they got away lightly!...

 

[Middo]

^^ ha ha ha.... what are you doing on here, actually we DID do the last service not the aux belt / cambelt though!!!

It has been like that for 30K aswell!!

Did the dog enjoy its walky?

tbh steve i'm quite surprised to see you online!

i'm just drawing up my jobs list :approve:

 

[SBV116]

I got in about quarter past 7!

 

[Nafeun]

meh, if you have mechanical experience the engines are just like any other to work on.

That looks nasty though, obviously the person who did it was an idiot.

 

[SBV116]

^ true, but they were working for a proper garage....and still made a right fork up!

 

[Nafeun]

^ true, but they were working for a proper garage....and still made a right fork up!

Yup, shocking stuff goes on in some garages

 

[Jay Payne]

I see s**t like this all the time. Loads of my customers say 'oh it was only in the garage yesteray/last week/last month''

Had a starter motor not engaging properly the other day, chap said hed had it replaced a week before and would take it back as it was abviosly faulty. I opened the bonnet and found it hanging on one (very loose) bolt.

Today had a guy who had had the discs and pads replaced yesterday, drove down the motorway and had smoke pouring off the front passenger wheel. I took it all apart and found the pads jammed in the caliper carrier coz the numptey hadnt cleanned the old baked on dust off it, let alone used any copper grease.

 

[Blue4Ever]

I had my cambelt changed at 'Renault Specialists' Accrington. It fell off.

 

[Alastair.]

jesus, kwik fit or what!

 

[SBV116]

I see s**t like this all the time. Loads of my customers say 'oh it was only in the garage yesteray/last week/last month''

Had a starter motor not engaging properly the other day, chap said hed had it replaced a week before and would take it back as it was abviosly faulty. I opened the bonnet and found it hanging on one (very loose) bolt.

Today had a guy who had had the discs and pads replaced yesterday, drove down the motorway and had smoke pouring off the front passenger wheel. I took it all apart and found the pads jammed in the caliper carrier coz the numptey hadnt cleanned the old baked on dust off it, let alone used any copper grease.

You saying that though, i do remember a chap calling in with a cavalier SRI at my old workplace. complianing of a grinding on the rear, he had also just had the pads replaced only days earlier somewhere.

To my horror, someone had put a pad in the wrong way around, so the friction material pointing towards the piston, and the metal backing pointing towards the disc, OUCH!:dead:

 

[martandem]

I had my cambelt changed at 'Renault Specialists' Accrington. It fell off.

Seriously?!?!?!

 

[mini-valver]

I see s**t like this all the time. Loads of my customers say 'oh it was only in the garage yesteray/last week/last month''

Had a starter motor not engaging properly the other day, chap said hed had it replaced a week before and would take it back as it was abviosly faulty. I opened the bonnet and found it hanging on one (very loose) bolt.

Today had a guy who had had the discs and pads replaced yesterday, drove down the motorway and had smoke pouring off the front passenger wheel. I took it all apart and found the pads jammed in the caliper carrier coz the numptey hadnt cleanned the old baked on dust off it, let alone used any copper grease.

You saying that though, i do remember a chap calling in with a cavalier SRI at my old workplace. complianing of a grinding on the rear, he had also just had the pads replaced only days earlier somewhere.

To my horror, someone had put a pad in the wrong way around, so the friction material pointing towards the piston, and the metal backing pointing towards the disc, OUCH!:dead:

LOL! Sounds like Kev had a long day