Changed my auxiliary belt tensioner today, definitely worth doing yourself to save a couple hours labour fees. Tensioner itself was £59.00
Part number on there too
Step one, remove air box, just disconnected the sensor, the jubilee clip holding the air pipe to the turbo, and the little bit of hosing that goes under the engine cover
Put the air box out of the way, belt is located down the side of engine
Step two, locate tensioner and using a 15mm socket and a nice longer breaker bar pull the tension off the belt (clockwise) and remove belt, make sure to check the belt is in good enough condition to put back on!
Step three, Jack car up and remove drivers front wheel, and the front half of the wheel arch liner (3 T20 torx screws and a handful of plastics push clips)
You can now access the tensioner from underneath too
Step four, using the breaker bar and 15mm socket again, pull the tensioner towards you (clockwise) until the 2 holes line up (highlighted blue in pic) and stick an Allen key in to keep it there
Step five, undo 2 13mm bolts, first one is the bottom one, from in the wheel arch, just left of tensioner wheel
Second one is a bit more of a pain, access from the top, just up and to the left of the Allen key.
Step six, pull out the old worn out tensioner from the wheel arch and compare it to the nice shiny new one!
Was hard to get a suitable picture for this, but the new one slots into place easily, do the bottom bolt part way up first since you can actually see this one! Then put the top bolt in, will take a bit of wriggling about to line up. Then do both bolts up firmly, don't over tighten.
Apparently I can't post any more pictures so I will continue below
Part number on there too
Step one, remove air box, just disconnected the sensor, the jubilee clip holding the air pipe to the turbo, and the little bit of hosing that goes under the engine cover
Put the air box out of the way, belt is located down the side of engine
Step two, locate tensioner and using a 15mm socket and a nice longer breaker bar pull the tension off the belt (clockwise) and remove belt, make sure to check the belt is in good enough condition to put back on!
Step three, Jack car up and remove drivers front wheel, and the front half of the wheel arch liner (3 T20 torx screws and a handful of plastics push clips)
You can now access the tensioner from underneath too
Step four, using the breaker bar and 15mm socket again, pull the tensioner towards you (clockwise) until the 2 holes line up (highlighted blue in pic) and stick an Allen key in to keep it there
Step five, undo 2 13mm bolts, first one is the bottom one, from in the wheel arch, just left of tensioner wheel
Second one is a bit more of a pain, access from the top, just up and to the left of the Allen key.
Step six, pull out the old worn out tensioner from the wheel arch and compare it to the nice shiny new one!
Was hard to get a suitable picture for this, but the new one slots into place easily, do the bottom bolt part way up first since you can actually see this one! Then put the top bolt in, will take a bit of wriggling about to line up. Then do both bolts up firmly, don't over tighten.
Apparently I can't post any more pictures so I will continue below
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