hi everyone, 

 

bad times have happened lately, replaced timing belt few months ago all done as it was supposed to, torqued tensioner up correctly etc.  also fitted a new tensioner stud and thats where everything went pear shaped, it snapped. belt kit and stud were genuine parts, bad luck i guess. 

 

anyway the car owes me to much money for me to want to cut my losses and ive just replaced the turbo as well so its staying. ill be getting a replacement engine for it and fitting a new flywheel and clutch. is there anything else on these that would be worth changing while its in bits? (2006 estate 2.0tdi 140 bkd) ill be taking the glw plugs from the old engine as theyre also new and it will obviously have all new filters and oil. 

 

...off i go to sell a kidney...

 

atb, gaj

Don't forget the sunk cost fallacy

 

So, the only thing that has happened is a stud was broken in the block? If you're replacing the engine anyway, can't you try and extract it first, what have you to lose?

6 hours ago, LightRain said:

Don't forget the sunk cost fallacy

 

So, the only thing that has happened is a stud was broken in the block? If you're replacing the engine anyway, can't you try and extract it first, what have you to lose?

 

the stud holding the timing belt tensioner snapped and the belt come off, bent valves everywhere haha

3 minutes ago, gaj1612 said:

 

the stud holding the timing belt tensioner snapped and the belt come off, bent valves everywhere haha

 

Ahh, I was thinking it was an installation failure, not a running failure. Too bad.