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You sort of don't nottice how bad a car is until you test drive a newer one or fit something new to your old faithfull! Put a new US made and sourced timing blt kit on my EA82T - finished today.

The start up was quieter, runs just a little nicer, with new tensioners bearings just super quiet (not that I noticed old ones noisy) tighter belts just bringing cam and crank back into synch and harmony wth everything else.

If I was stumped with local retail of $400 (or trade price of $240) for the $102 delivered from US belt kit I would likely have not done it - but would not want to drive it too far beyond 100,000km. So, what would happen to it if ordinary Joe still owned it - driven until it died, then trashed.

Somewhere, someone along the pricing line is getting screwed

steptoe wrote:You sort of don't nottice how bad a car is until you test drive a newer one or fit something new to your old faithfull! Put a new US made and sourced timing blt kit on my EA82T - finished today.

The start up was quieter, runs just a little nicer, with new tensioners bearings just super quiet (not that I noticed old ones noisy) tighter belts just bringing cam and crank back into synch and harmony wth everything else.

If I was stumped with local retail of $400 (or trade price of $240) for the $102 delivered from US belt kit I would likely have not done it - but would not want to drive it too far beyond 100,000km. So, what would happen to it if ordinary Joe still owned it - driven until it died, then trashed.

Somewhere, someone along the pricing line is getting screwed

We the end user are the ones being screwed.

Did another EA82 belt kit today and got similar nicer running result

Got some inner peace now . New belts, new tensioners and idler and more valuable space in the shed

The tensioner pulley suffered previously unseen damage in the trip from US but was sorted. What p1sst me off though was the wider tensioner pulley ~28mm - the back of which was scrubbing the tensioner spring, requiring a squeeze of the tensioner end of the spring eye to shift it off the spring. The belt is 25mm, the normal tensioner puleys are only about 25mm wide and do not foul tension spring.