Atari Boy Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Right, 2001 Lupo 1.0 E, bought yesterday. It has done 120,000 miles but lots of history, last cambelt change that I can find documented in the history was at 73,000 in 2007.Does it need a new cambelt now or if not when. Should the tensioner and water pump be done at the same time ?Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver! Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Originally 60,000 miles\4 years, VW/SEAT changed it to 40,000 miles\4 years.Best to change tensioner and waterpump whilst it's all off, though I understand the change was made due to brittle plastic impeller blades on the pump and badly designed tensioners, which have been replaced by metal impeller blades and better tensioners.I personally would get it changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defcon5 Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 I got a new waterpump from VW, it had plastic blades. They claimed they do not do one with metal ones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toi gulp Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 does that mean that they have corrected the issue for the new parts too?or are vw just being lazy and reducing the service life of the parts rather than actually correcting them. In other words if you have your cambelt done at VW will it last longer, more than 40k? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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