Cam Chains

[pimpcat 0]

How much would it cost to replace cam chains?

[Ciaran 4]

do a search 100's of topics!! gggggrrrrrrr

[ingham 5]

depends on where you take it ,i got mine done for £250 plus parts

[feltch racing 0]

how much in totel then with parts ingham ? mine needs doin

[Earwig 89]

When do they need doing?

I was told to wait until they sounded noisy and that was by VW themselves !

Car has done 125,000 so far......Am I risking it by not having them done?

[matth76 1]

I would take what vw say with a pinch of salt. The Phirm have had people take their cars to them after vw did their chains and got the cam timing all wrong. VW couldn't even manage to tighten all 6 of my spark plugs at all (all of them were loose!). I'm never taking my car back to a vw main dealer...certainly not caffyns! When my chains needed doing the noise was bearly audiable underneath the usual tappet noise. The noise will only be a very faint background raspy noise. If it gets audiable then the chains are well on their way out and in my opinion the problem should be rectified well before they get 'noisy'. You should be able to tell if yours need doing. With the bonnet open rev the car and put your ear to the engine... you will hear the tappet noise but if you can hear another background raspy noise then that is the chains.

Forgot to say my chains and new clutch were in the region of 650. Which about average on here. Get the clutch done too as that will cost loads to do at a later date..

POST EDITED BY VR6Pete.

[matrix 0]

looking thee paperwork for my car its supposed to have £3000 spent on it around 2003 2004 but i cans see where the money has gone i can see why u call then stealers now.

[VR6Pete 1,455]

I'm watchin this thread, so keep it under control please people....

[andy 0]

Interesting.....

[VR6Rich 3]

Best bet is to phone around a few places and if you are not worried about driving some distance to get somebody to do it who know what they are doing then try Vince at Stealth or The Phirm.