172Cup cam belt - hard jod?

[R Suppards]

My Cup is on 35k miles and it's going in to a small independent garage I know for its 36k service (aux belt being done by him at same time)

I was thinking of ordering the cam belt kit off k-tec and asking him to change that at the same time (car is 53 reg, so coming up to 5 years) is it a big job to change the cam belt on the cup? can it be done by an independent chap ok, or is it deffinately a job for Renault or a specialist like GDI, K-Tec, Angelworks or yozzasports etc?

Does the cam belt change need special tools that only Renault or a specialist will have? or is it a job a competant independent will be able to tackle?

Cheers

Ian

 

[edde]

Yep pain to do the cambelts 15 mins for the aux belt but 5.2 hours for the cambelt.

Yep need special tools as well to do it right.

Persnaly I'd never gte any garage to do a 172/182 belt wunless they have the tools and have done them before to many "good" garages have messed them up before now.

 

[R Suppards]

Thanks for the quick reply !!!

Bugger, it would have been convenient for me to ask him to do the cam belt at the same time, but it looks like i'll have to brave a trip to a Renault dealership later next year then :dapprove: I live quite far away from the specialst garages, so it would be hard for me to get to them.... so Renault it might have to be :dead: