Beardo
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Registered: 19th Oct 04
Location: Kelsall, Cheshire
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my car has done 37,000 miles and is in for service next week.
i have been told to change my cambelt at this stage by various people however bloke at garage has quoted me £175 for the cam belt and tensioning kit and £40 for fitting - is this reasonable + anyway to avoid such cost.
means another month without me car lowered 
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Carr
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Registered: 1st Oct 04
Location: Leicestershire (Home) Ambleside, Lakes (Uni)
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do it yourself its cheaper. if you can
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supacook2k
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Registered: 26th May 03
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i paid £140 for a new cambelt, tensioners, oil change and filter + fitting, that was by a garage near me!
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infinitycorsa
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: Stourport-on-Severn, Hereford and Worcester
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u can do it under an hr on a 1.4 8v i did mine quite easily, for the price of the belt....just make sure u line up the timing marks
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Black Corsa SRi
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Registered: 25th May 02
Location: ---Stockport---- Drives: Pug 206 Roland Garros
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the rpice you've said is about right if its from vaux, they quoted me £210 for cambelt and running gear on my old corsa but i got my local garage to do it instead for £150 using vaux parts
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Rileysport
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Registered: 18th Jun 04
Location: West Yorkshire
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fook, cost me not much more than that, and thats on an x16 lump with metal rollers 
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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what engine is this on? cost me erm... £120 on a c16xe and £100 of that was on SBD Iders... do it yourself its kinda hard to fcuk up...
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Stu_22
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Luton
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but if you do fcuk it up you fcuk it up big style
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
Location: Drives: E39
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is it pretty easy to do with the engine in following the haynes manual? never attempted a cam belt change on my own but im going to try it.....
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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the only fiddly part is getting belt to sit on all the pulleys correctly and its not even that hard....
when u have it back together crank the engine over with your spanner a good few times and make sure all the marks line up and your sorted...
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
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snorted, may give it ago next weekend, my rollers are getting noisey, will order the metal thingys, then i need a cam belt on its own from vauxhall.......that it?
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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a new tensioner to....
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Rileysport
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Registered: 18th Jun 04
Location: West Yorkshire
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and fookin patience
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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took me about an hour to do the cam belt, the pulleys,the tensioner and the water pump.... and 30 mins of that was spent chopping the feck out of the timing belt cover cos it wouldnt fit over the water pump they gave me...
it was the right water pump so i dunno wtf was wrong with it
Disclaimer: the engine was not in the car while the work was being carryed out
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Rileysport
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Registered: 18th Jun 04
Location: West Yorkshire
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spent my time getting the cam pulleys to line up right.... bastids
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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good new is i have to take it back off again... ive had a ecu light on since the conversion giving a fault code for the camshaft sensor and i found out why the other day.... theres a little lug snapped off the the exhaust pulley... so i'll do that when the engine is out next week...
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Rileysport
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Registered: 18th Jun 04
Location: West Yorkshire
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oooh enjoy 
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
Location: Drives: E39
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hummm shouldnt be too hard with engine in, not much longer than a couple of hour with several tea breaks! can use my new torque wrench too! JOY
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