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Old 04-18-2013, 02:40 PM
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Just took the car for another test drive - airon off. At low revs (eg, reversing), the battery light comes back on and steering gets stiffer.

Hopefully this points more towards a loose belt? I'll run it to the dealer tomorrow to see what they think. If they need to tighten the tensoners would an hour of labour be about right?

Hope I'm right - this
will be expensive enough

And the Summer 168s were just about to go on in honour of spring finally coming !!!!
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Old 04-19-2013, 05:17 AM
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Well, it's much worse than we thought.

Seems that the damper has failed so needs to be replaced with belts, and apparantly now also a battery - Complete bill for repair €1000

The battery can wait, but I can't risk losing the waterpump or powersteering so will have to get the work done asap.

I'm trying to get an idea if €700 just to change the damper and belts is reasonable. Does anyone have some experience of this?

Thanks in advance. kev.
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