Drive belt tensioner.

"pete" > wrote in message
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> My car is 6 years old. A 535i and the tensioner on the top of the
> drive belts has just failed. The mechanic has just been to Linds the
> BMW people around here (Ipswich UK) and he has been told there is not
> one in the country and I now have to wait for one to be flown in from
> Germany. This £43K car is spending more time doing nothing than my
> £200 VW Polo ever has:-(

Speak to FAB breakers. www.fabdirect.com
They'll have one for peanuts money.

JB

"pete" > wrote in message
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> My car is 6 years old. A 535i and the tensioner on the top of the
> drive belts has just failed. The mechanic has just been to Linds the
> BMW people around here (Ipswich UK) and he has been told there is not
> one in the country and I now have to wait for one to be flown in from
> Germany. This £43K car is spending more time doing nothing than my
> £200 VW Polo ever has:-(
> pete

If you paid 43K pounds for a 6 year old car you got screwed.

It's not the car that is the problem. It's the dealerships (system?) in
your country. I'm betting I'd be able to get pretty much any part like this
here (in the US) by overnight express freight if I wanted it badly.

MaltHound

"pete" > wrote in message
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> >If you paid 43K pounds for a 6 year old car you got screwed.
>
> Nah that what it cost new.

So comparing like for like, a car which cost 43k 6 years ago is only
"half a car" when compared to one which cost £37k 17 years ago!!!
(Allowing for inflation of course).

Like my E32 7 series.


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"pete" > wrote in message
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> >So comparing like for like, a car which cost 43k 6 years ago is only
> >"half a car" when compared to one which cost £37k 17 years ago!!!
> >(Allowing for inflation of course).
> >
> >Like my E32 7 series.
>
> You are possibly correct. At the moment it doesn't matter what mine
> cost new as it is still down. Hopefully it will be repaired tomorrow
> in time to be taken away for a tie rod and drive belt to be fitted
> over the weekend and on Monday I might just be lucky enough to get to
> drive my car again:-(

My french hothatch cost £4400 17 years ago, which makes it
comparible to the tax paid when the beemer left the forecourt.

And the tax paid on the hothatch probably matched the cost of
the first service of the beemer!!

So how come the ax is as fighting fit as the bmw??

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