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Old Aug 27th, 2008, 04:50   #11
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After my experiance I would ensure that whoever you get to change it does have the correct tool to hold the crank still while the centre bolt is loosened/tightened.
I was willing to risk doing it myself with a homemade widget as I'll give most things a go!

You may want to try ringing around various independant VW specialists as the engine is a VW unit, I am suprised that the VW comercial place wasn't interested though.

My experiance of Volvo main dealers and the D24 engines is that they dont have a clue about them, though I might have just been unlucky.

If you are planning on getting a rebuilt engine, then don't bother chanigng it....just keep your fingers crossed!, if you intend on keeping that engine then I would get it done.

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Old Aug 27th, 2008, 13:09   #12
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After my experiance I would ensure that whoever you get to change it does have the correct tool to hold the crank still while the centre bolt is loosened/tightened.
I was willing to risk doing it myself with a homemade widget as I'll give most things a go!

You may want to try ringing around various independant VW specialists as the engine is a VW unit, I am suprised that the VW comercial place wasn't interested though.

My experiance of Volvo main dealers and the D24 engines is that they dont have a clue about them, though I might have just been unlucky.

If you are planning on getting a rebuilt engine, then don't bother chanigng it....just keep your fingers crossed!, if you intend on keeping that engine then I would get it done.

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Saving up for a rebuild will take me till next year and even if buying a secondhand one it's still a lot more money on top for someone to fit it so I'd like to do the cam belt so at least I know I can safely drive the car on this engine until I'm financially ready to change/rebuild. I've also read lots of bad stuff about Volvos servicing these engines. I'm going to get back onto the servicing manager at the VW Commericals and complain and will also ask Volvos if I can have a proper guaranteed quote for it, at least main dealers guarantee their work and good idea, will try to find another VWs. By the way, my thread read badly, I wasn't referring to you an an amateur, I meant some of these local garages who can't even put the right oil in, the right amount, simple basic stuff they get wrong

Have just rung local main Volvo agents - they say between £350 - £400! Gulp! I expected about £250. I will try and find other VW diesel garages.......
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Old Aug 27th, 2008, 18:14   #13
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£350-400 ouch!. I would guess that if you knew what you were doing, had the correct tools and a nice workshop that it would be about a 3-man hours job...2 hours for one person and with assistant for about an hour of that time.

oh, don't worry I'll quite freely admit to being an amatuer!, and a bodger come to think of it!


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Waylaid an RAC man in a carpark, showed my membership card and asked him who he would recommend for this job on this engine. He gave me the card of the garage in Reading Berks that do all their diesel fleet work (I assume theirs are all modern common rail engines). I had a result, they know these engines. I am fitted in with them for cam belt change on the 16th, cost

£145.50 plus vat.

Delighted. By the 16th she'll have had oil, flush, filter change, back axle and gearbox levels checked, propshaft joints checked, plus most importantly a cd player fitted next Tuesday lol, plus I have done all the minor stuff I can do myself, wiper blades, air filter, pedal rubbers, roof rack, etc.. getting somewhere with this car now. I may ask them if they can time my pump up and fit new fuel filter, was going to give that to the diesel specialists but they thrashed my car after I asked them not to and then argued with me that the D24TIC doesnt have oil flow/pressure probs........
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Any VW diesel mechanic or competent diesel mechanic should be able to do this for you. I'm sure the commercial lot could do so and cannot understand why they 'couldn't be bovvered" There is no problem with going the Volvo route - so long as you can afford it.
I can recommend a good mechanic, the only problem being that Wembley is not exactly local to you.
If non availability of tools is a problem for your local mechanic you are quite welcome to a loan of the locking tool and pump timing gauge.

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Any VW diesel mechanic or competent diesel mechanic should be able to do this for you. I'm sure the commercial lot could do so and cannot understand why they 'couldn't be bovvered" There is no problem with going the Volvo route - so long as you can afford it.
I can recommend a good mechanic, the only problem being that Wembley is not exactly local to you.
If non availability of tools is a problem for your local mechanic you are quite welcome to a loan of the locking tool and pump timing gauge.

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Hi Jor

Thank you for the offer of loan of tools. If I have a bad experience with the RAC recommended garage I would certainly travel to Wembley, I've got no idea why I am having such a high incidence of problems with garages in the Henley/South East area here, I never had this problem in London when I used to live there. Travelling to Wembley would at least give this vehicle a bit of a run (making sure I get the D24TIC up and running for quite a while whenever I can and avoiding short run syndrome) and with the mpg I return in it it's worth the journey. I even had a bad experience with localish Mercedes main dealers after paying them a huge sum to service my Merc camper, I only just found what they'd done in time before it killed my vehicle. Yes, I would have been able to sue but whether I'd have gotten the true financial value of the vehicle back as it stood to me is another matter. Will post on here how my cam belt change has gone. But then how will I know if the tensioners have not been done correctly? Off now to read that up on the net, lol... Many thanks
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