[Vwdiesel] TDI alternator pulley

[Shawn Wright]

Is this also true on the '04 PD engines? The car I'm looking at had the
tensioner flopping about quite a bit at idle, even though they told me the
serp belt had just been done. Is there a hydraulic damper on the tensioner
that will fail?

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:36 PM, travis gottschalk <tgott at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Most of the time the alternator pulley is what causes the tensioner to
> fail. If you have vibration at idle on the serp belt then I would replace
> that as well.
>
> I'm still tempted to replace the alternator clutch, but I really should
> > start trying to not fix what's not broken.  It's just that the stuff
> > that works is always easier to fix than all of the stuff that really is
> > broken.
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Shawn Wright