quattro Digest, Vol 149, Issue 6

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Age would have an effect in this case Dr Watson.....~{:-D-


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Today's Topics:

   1. '02 A4q 3.0 Aux. belt tensioner failure (Tihol Tiholov)
   2. Re: '02 A4q 3.0 Aux. belt tensioner failure (Peter Golledge)


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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:40:23 -0700
From: Tihol Tiholov <t.tiholov at gmail.com>
To: "quattro at audifans.com" <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: '02 A4q 3.0 Aux. belt tensioner failure
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Just sharing.
2 days ago the roller of the auxiliary/poly V belt tensioner seized with no
prior noise warning prior and, of course, ripped the belt, almost through.
Car had 150K km.
How often does this happen? Have 3 other VAG products, 2 with original
tensioners and no issues. Any BTDT's?

-- 
Tihol


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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:07:58 -0600
From: Peter Golledge <petergolledge at gmail.com>
To: Tihol Tiholov <t.tiholov at gmail.com>
Cc: "quattro at audifans.com" <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: '02 A4q 3.0 Aux. belt tensioner failure
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Well on all of the older generation motors (MC, AAN etc) belts/idlers were
always replaced every 60K miles  (along with Water pump since it was the
tension device).  I'd keep with that, way cheaper than a new motor.

Could be worse there are later V8 Audis with insane ($5K) repairs to get
timing chain tensioners replaced. :-)

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Tihol Tiholov <t.tiholov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just sharing.
> 2 days ago the roller of the auxiliary/poly V belt tensioner seized with no
> prior noise warning prior and, of course, ripped the belt, almost through.
> Car had 150K km.
> How often does this happen? Have 3 other VAG products, 2 with original
> tensioners and no issues. Any BTDT's?
>
> --
> Tihol
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