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[Taxi_Driver]

Thought i double check when my cambelt /waterpump was changed last......dunno what made me check.....i was convinced i had a few thousand miles to go......looked it up on my spreadsheet....

Changed at 86k.....i turned over 127k earlier this evening

[Debs.]

Thought i double check when my cambelt /waterpump was changed last......dunno what made me check.....i was convinced i had a few thousand miles to go......looked it up on my spreadsheet....

Changed at 86k.....i turned over 127k earlier this evening

  Yikes!.....`know what you`ll be doing-soon then  

[albitz]

out with the tools pfq then.

[Andy B]

Thought i double check when my cambelt /waterpump was changed last......dunno what made me check.....i was convinced i had a few thousand miles to go......looked it up on my spreadsheet....

Changed at 86k.....i turned over 127k earlier this evening

Don't panic! ....... Mr Mainwaring. How long has it taken you to do 41k miles. I'm sure that Vauxhall were being exteremely over cautious when they halved the belt change interval. Still .... I'd want it done sooner rather than later.  

[Taxi_Driver]

out with the tools pfq then.

Trouble is ive never done one.......James did it last time for me  

But he's not a member anymore  

So it will be garage job......im afraid.

[HGV mechanic]

i can imagine what you'll be think while driving,,, :-/

[Andy B]

.........James did it last time for me  

But he's not a member anymore    ......

Isn't he?  :-? Why?

I assume the twin cam 4 pots are pretty similar across the Vx range. I did my wife's Astra 16v in an hour or so, didn't rush at all. I reckon it could easily be done in half that - didn't do the water pump though. I'm sure you could do it cheaper all in all - including time off the road from taxiing - than by paying someone else.

[HGV mechanic]

out with the tools pfq then.

Trouble is ive never done one.......James did it last time for me  

But he's not a member anymore  

So it will be garage job......im afraid.

get the dvd in the oof shop !

cant go wrong  

[Taxi_Driver]

Thought i double check when my cambelt /waterpump was changed last......dunno what made me check.....i was convinced i had a few thousand miles to go......looked it up on my spreadsheet....

Changed at 86k.....i turned over 127k earlier this evening

Don't panic! ....... Mr Mainwaring. How long has it taken you to do 41kmiles . I'm sure that Vauxhall were being exteremely over cautious when they halved the belt change interval. Still .... I'd want it done sooner rather than later.  

According to my spreadsheet just over a year.....13/14 months

[albitz]

out with the tools pfq then.

Trouble is ive never done one.......James did it last time for me  

But he's not a member anymore  

So it will be garage job......im afraid.

if you can get hold of the tools from someone,its a piece of p155,with the dvd  

[HGV mechanic]

.........James did it last time for me  

But he's not a member anymore    ......

Isn't he?  :-? Why?

I assume the twin cam 4 pots are pretty similar across the Vx range. I did my wife's Astra 16v in an hour or so, didn't rush at all. I reckon it could easily be done in half that - didn't do the water pump though. I'm sure you could do it cheaper all in all - including time off the road from taxiing - than by paying someone else.

had to sort himself out

[Andy B]

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if you can get hold of the tools from someone,its a piece of p155,with the dvd  

The cam lock tool for SWMBO's Astra was about a fiver from a motor factor.

[Elite Pete]

Sooner rather than later TD

[Andy B]

....
had to sort himself out

Oh!? Nothing serious I hope.  :-?

[TheBoy]

2.2 is nice and easy TD