[s-cars] Was bad CPS?, now bad crank pulley and balancer confirmed

[Sean Douglas]

Glad to hear you got it sorted, but $500 to replace the water pump? You
could get away with not changing it, but if they adjusted the belt too
tight, the pump will fail prematurely. Based on your experience with
this dealer, I wouldn't be surprised if they over tightened the t-belt.

The part is like $60 and the labour to do this at this point is maybe 15
minutes, 30 minutes tops if they have to scrape off old sealer and
that's being generous.

Sean
1997 S6

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> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:30 AM
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> Subject: [s-cars] Was bad CPS?, now bad crank pulley and 
> balancer confirmed
> 
> 
> Finally got an answer.
>  
> Got a call on Monday from the dealer who has had the car for 
> the last 2 weeks.  They removed the pulley and balancer and 
> reported that both were bad.  The 'key' did shear off the 
> pulley and the balancer went bad and has some sort of 
> physical damage.  
>  
> (I was a little T'd off since the service advisor had agreed 
> to call me to be present when the items were removed.  This 
> was mostly in case I ended up in a dispute with the extended 
> warranty company.)
>  
> Just received another call this morning and fortunately the 
> warranty company will cover everything with the exception of 
> express (if you call a week 'express') shipping of some parts 
> from Germany and minor shop charges.  The parts I know they 
> will be replacing are the belt, tensioner, pulley and 
> balancer (obviously), key way, and crank bolt.  
>  
> A question did come up about the water pump.  I had 
> originally told them to give me a price on replacing the pump 
> (it is not bad and would not be covered under the warranty).  
> Dealer wants about $500.  Note that the pump was replaced at 
> 52k three years ago by same dealer during last timing belt 
> job.  Car has 82k now.
>  
> Should I replace the pump?
>  
> Also should I have them perform another compression test once 
> it is running again?
>  
> Thanks,
> Dave
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