Has anyone heard of the variable valve pulley needing to be replaced?

[azz_oak]

Hey, Has anyone heard of the variable valve pulley needing to be replaced at a cambelt change? just that when i rang a garage for a quote the bloke said it was fairly common and the part was £100! and another garage said he'd never heard of that being a problem! im wondering whether they're trying to earn a little extra on the job!any ideas??? cheers x

 

[Sean6545]

Theres no need to replace if theres nothing wrong with it.

 

[azz_oak]

But is it common for then to be replaced?

 

[Sean6545]

I work in a dealer and have never replaced one or heard of replaceing them on any f4r or f4p. Its only the vvt 1.6's that suffer from noisy depahasers.

 

[DrR]

Heard of loads failing on here, myself included.

 

[SkidMarx]

I work in a dealer and have never replaced one or heard of replaceing them on any f4r or f4p. Its only the vvt 1.6's that suffer from noisy depahasers.

+1

Used to replace them every day on 1600 meganes and scenics

Never saw 1 fail on an f4r

 

[DrR]

lol mine sheered off!

 

[richy]

the dephaser on the K4M engine was really bad, that was a everyday job, but i think we only ever changed a couple of F4R dephasers, usually down noisey operation.

 

[azz_oak]

cheers guys!

 

[Icarus]

Worth noting I life them at 7500KM's on the race F4R engines - they don't last much beyond this.

On a road engine that gets clean, good oil often they should do 100K or so quite happily.

Cheers
M