Decided Not To Replace Cambelt (Ford Figo)

R10k sounds about right for a complete manifold I'd say
Is the car still under warranty?

If not, I'd still consider repairing rather than replacing, dependant on extent of damage.
 
Sinbad said:
R10k sounds about right for a complete manifold I'd say
Is the car still under warranty?

If not, I'd still consider repairing rather than replacing, dependant on extent of damage.
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6 months out of warranty, which is a shame. Think the place it's at is adamant on replacing it. Should check if repairing is an option
 
If you get the dealer to replace it, you should have a full year warrenty.
Normally no warrenty on repairs, so before you go ahead, find out what a stealer would charge for new parts and then only decide.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Wat? My Golf GTI has done 148 000km without a sweat as you call it.

And it's going to do 250 000km as well, as many many many of them do.

I recall seeing a Golf GTI on auction with 350 000km, but obviously I don't know the history of that car.
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Funny this old thread.. I was searching the cambelt on the Figo since I drive one now.

On the mileage subject. My Opel corsa 1.6 8v got 340 000km without ever touching the engine. Gaskets were replaced probably some time around 200k km. It smoked slightly after 230k km. Used abit of oil but I believe the key to the mileage on that engine was the 5k km oil services and the Diesel multigrade oil I used on a petrol model for the last 100k km.

Sadly everything else fell apart. The CV's was the worst. The chassis rusted and basically broke since it was always parked outside. Sold it and eventually I heard the electric loom caught fire . R3000 the guy fixed it and sold it again. Heard it was last running somewhere in a rural town. I doubt my poor Ford would last that long. But those 8V engines can take a punch.

Anyways looks like my Ford Figo will need a new cambelt at 90k km. Lets see what Ford quotes me.
 
Acros said:
On the mileage subject. My Opel corsa 1.6 8v got 340 000km without ever touching the engine. Gaskets were replaced probably some time around 200k km. It smoked slightly after 230k km. Used abit of oil but I believe the key to the mileage on that engine was the 5k km oil services and the Diesel multigrade oil I used on a petrol model for the last 100k km.

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Replacing gaskets is touching the engine.

Whereas replacing a cambelt is completely external to it and a normal service operation.

Even so there is nothing unusual about replacing gaskets on a high mileage engine. It's by design and not a failure as such.
 
Remember when I took my 2006 Jazz for a service. Tried to con me with the "oh we need to change the belt". Politely reminded them that it was 2010, and it had chain.
 
genelock said:
ok so not more than 5k is what I wanted to know
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Well that can only be fully answered by whoever you get a quote from.

A brand name dealership will charge you more.

What car is it?

dyno tuning?
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No certainly not. It’s a regular maintenance item.

A dyno tune pretty much never gets done for regular maintenance.

Only on something like a full rebuild or serious modification.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Well that can only be fully answered by whoever you get a quote from.

A brand name dealership will charge you more.

What car is it?



No certainly not. It’s a regular maintenance item.

A dyno tune pretty much never gets done for regular maintenance.

Only on something like a full rebuild or serious modification.
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'99 Mazda Etude
Wife uses it to get to work. wanted to get the car to optimum performance with fuel usage and what not. Is that not dyna tune?
 
genelock said:
'99 Mazda Etude
Wife uses it to get to work. wanted to get the car to optimum performance with fuel usage and what not. Is that not dyna tune?
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Oh like that.

Dyno tune is a bit misconstrued as a statement because all the dyno really does is do a measure of power for given revs at the wheels.

The tuning part in modern cars involves changing the engine mapping through the original ECU or piggybacking another chip that lies to the the stock ECU.

it’s what you’ll have heard referred to as chipping.

So they do a dyno before and after which shows you how well that chipping worked. Problem is the same people selling you the chip is also doing the dyno and get to fiddle with it so never know what’s real and what isn’t.

You are looking at a couple of thousand rand to do this which you’ll never break even on through saving the fuel or selling the car so it’s really not worth it.

Most people do it for more performance which generally means less fuel economy anyway. Odds are the factory setup is already the best you’ll get.

A Dyno run itself is a few hundred bucks but meaningless without other work being done really.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Oh like that.

Dyno tune is a bit misconstrued as a statement because all the dyno really does is do a measure of power for given revs at the wheels.

The tuning part in modern cars involves changing the engine mapping through the original ECU or piggybacking another chip that lies to the the stock ECU.

it’s what you’ll have heard referred to as chipping.

So they do a dyno before and after which shows you how well that chipping worked. Problem is the same people selling you the chip is also doing the dyno and get to fiddle with it so never know what’s real and what isn’t.

You are looking at a couple of thousand rand to do this which you’ll never break even on through saving the fuel or selling the car so it’s really not worth it.

Most people do it for more performance which generally means less fuel economy anyway. Odds are the factory setup is already the best you’ll get.

A Dyno run itself is a few hundred bucks but meaningless without other work being done really.
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Listen thank you for your detailed reply
I feel like a twat now :p
 
genelock said:
Listen thank you for your detailed reply
I feel like a twat now :p
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No worries.

The confusion comes in becomes one of the companies at the centre of the industry is called DynaTune.

So much like the brand Hoover is considered a universal term for vacuum cleaner.
 
Sly21C said:
Now they are quoting me R7.5k for my Ford Figo at 200k mileage service. Where did you get yours fitted? Ford dealership or maybe at Service City or a place like that?
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WTF that's a bit too high for a Figo and trust me I would know I had my cambelt, serpintine belt and waterpump done in December at a Ford Dealership for about R5200. Mind you i'm in Cape Town, but it shouldn't be more than R6500 to do.
 
I was quoted R7200 for the 100k cambelt service from Ford Imperial Cape Town in early 2017. I ended up going to an independent for the full service with cambelt and tensioner + all the other belts, water pump and coolant. It ended up being R4200 with all Ford parts besides Shell synthetic oil.

The additional belts are really expensive as they are stretch belts.

It was 1hr labour.

It would have been around to R10k had Ford done it with the additional belts and waterpump.
 
Sly21C said:
Now they are quoting me R7.5k for my Ford Figo at 200k mileage service. Where did you get yours fitted? Ford dealership or maybe at Service City or a place like that?
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Don't replace your cam belt man, its a conspiracy to get your money, cambelts can easily last 500 000km

*Sly21C believes anything he reads online that isn't mainstream thinking
 
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