Z3 2.8 Timing Chain replacement - Time/Cost?
Discussion
Evening all,
Had the Z3 MOT'd and serviced today, sailed through which is always nice to hear. The car is still at the garage as I'm picking it up tomorrow morning, however on the phone today they mentioned the timing chain is stretched and could do with replacement, but they would chat to me more about it tomorrow. A quick Google shows that 90,000 miles is about the right time to replace (my car is on 97,000), so it sounds reasonable enough.
Does anyone know roughly how much I should expect to pay for replacement?
Thanks in advance.
Had the Z3 MOT'd and serviced today, sailed through which is always nice to hear. The car is still at the garage as I'm picking it up tomorrow morning, however on the phone today they mentioned the timing chain is stretched and could do with replacement, but they would chat to me more about it tomorrow. A quick Google shows that 90,000 miles is about the right time to replace (my car is on 97,000), so it sounds reasonable enough.
Does anyone know roughly how much I should expect to pay for replacement?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks all, always good to have a second opinion.
So it's possible to simply adjust the tension of the chain? Also is it easy to identify if it is too slack?
Used the garage for years and also a good friend of my parents works there, so I'd hope they wouldn't try and pull a fast one, they've done a few freebies for me before etc!
So it's possible to simply adjust the tension of the chain? Also is it easy to identify if it is too slack?
Used the garage for years and also a good friend of my parents works there, so I'd hope they wouldn't try and pull a fast one, they've done a few freebies for me before etc!
Right, got the car back now all serviced and MOT'd.
The engine management light was on (I thought it was related to the servicing becoming due but obviously not), and the source of the error came from the sensor for the chain. They're not going to do any work on it at the moment or without a thorough investigation of what is causing it, but they said a possible cause is the chain becoming stretched and therefore knocking the timing out a little and confusing the ECU in to over fuelling?
Anyway, all error codes reset and light turned off, now just going to wait and see if/when it crops up again and then diagnose from there.
The engine management light was on (I thought it was related to the servicing becoming due but obviously not), and the source of the error came from the sensor for the chain. They're not going to do any work on it at the moment or without a thorough investigation of what is causing it, but they said a possible cause is the chain becoming stretched and therefore knocking the timing out a little and confusing the ECU in to over fuelling?
Anyway, all error codes reset and light turned off, now just going to wait and see if/when it crops up again and then diagnose from there.
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