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    Default Cam belt/fuel pump belt

    Car's in the garage next week getting the cam belt done. It's a Mondeo TD.
    I've been told that while they're tinkering away down there they may as well do the fuel pump belt as well cos if it goes it could affect the cam belt. Does this sound about right? Surely the only problem would be that it just stops pumping fuel and cuts out?

    Mike.

    ps, the Mondeo link below is also mine (Cold starting) seems that it was air getting in, greased up as advised and starting much smoother now. Cheers!

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    hi,
    glad grease trick did the trick, as it were.
    wot year is your mondy? how many miles has it done?
    get the tensioners changed as well if anything over 70k. it'll be so much cheaper in the long run.
    one idiot i know thought he new better and it cost him £650 and that was cheap in the trade.
    oh, all right it was me. and i should know better, i'Ve been in the motor trade since 1972. trying to do things on the cheap again. like i said i'm an idiot.

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    Originally posted by montsett
    hi,
    glad grease trick did the trick, as it were.
    wot year is your mondy? how many miles has it done?
    get the tensioners changed as well if anything over 70k. it'll be so much cheaper in the long run.
    It's 99 V reg on 60k. My mechanic said that on earlier ones he would have changed the tensioners/pulleys as well, but as mine is a later one it would have been modified anyway and is not necessary.
    I had to do the same thing on my Vectra a few months ago though. One of the pulleys had staretd to squeal, wouldn't have been long before it seized up and snapped the belt. Poxy Vauxhall cars, second time it had gone.

    Cheers.

    Mike.

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    vectras are well known for shagged pulleys/tensioners, i think the are plastic, they crack and then go and shag the valves when they snap the belt. always get em changed when buying one second hand & intending to keep it for a while

    as for mondys, cant help sorry

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