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Originally Posted by Ninja59
In honesty though I don't see Volvo doing anything about it, what is the point the D5 is near the end of it's life and probably at a hunch it is cheaper to continue replacing these belts than do a complete re-design.
It could also be a supplier issue mind.
Oh and I am no 23 year old designer from Ford...ha!
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They redesigned the 2007 ford tensioner , that was better but still gave problems so redesigned the cylinder block casting to take a hydraulic tensioner and apparantly thats no good either ! so it seems they are changing it at 36000 or 54000 miles on service now .. as i said from the beginning to all those 23 year old computer screen designers , use the 240 or 850 tensioner .. if anyone has one and strips one down they will see why i say this .. look at a rubbish crimped ford one and you can see why they can ( not always ) fail . We are not talking about mass failure here , just the percentage failure is far too high . How many fail ? only volvo know that but maybe one in 2000 , and how many of those are down to not being changed when scheduled ?