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Old 02-12-2009, 11:06 AM
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What have I done to deserves this ! Taking my youngest son to Haywards Heath this morning when I heard a rubbling noise coming from the engine, this became to very loud Knocking noise, you guessed it " Bottom end". I have only done 520 miles in it. The garage is coming to pick it up shortly.
Going up to Brdford this afternoon with my middle son to look at a very nice Ra, lets hope we have a bit more luck.
A very p***ed off Martyn.
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Old 02-12-2009, 11:37 AM
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On your new p1???
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Old 02-12-2009, 11:41 AM
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Afraid so !!
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Old 02-12-2009, 12:25 PM
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I can't believe the shocking luck you are having at the moment.

For god sake, stop and spend £1.00 on a losing lottery ticket on the way and have that as the 3rd bit of bad luck.

Hope all goes well for you mate.
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Old 02-12-2009, 12:40 PM
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Sorry to hear that Martyn.
Fingers crossed for you that it's the cam belt tensioner, as there is a design fault on the 99/00 ones (and even some of thelatter ones) that cause them to loose pressure.

They tend to do it more when weather is cold.
This causes a knocking from the front/middle not too dis-similar to big end failure. Due to the tensioner bouncing on it's end stop when the belt goes round.

The engine in Worzels, before he rebuilt it, was a Subaru return thought to be big end, that ended up being just the cam belt tensioner. But Subaru dealers have a tendancy just to rip the bottom ends out without checking as they can claim it under the warranty and get paid the labour for the job.
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Old 02-12-2009, 01:04 PM
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Sorry to hear your bad luck

Fingers crossed the RA brings you good luck
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Old 02-12-2009, 01:15 PM
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Old 02-12-2009, 02:50 PM
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Fingers crossed the RA brings you good luck
The Ra is for his son
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Old 02-12-2009, 03:13 PM
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Martyn now that is bad luck.Hope it all gets sorted.
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Old 02-12-2009, 04:39 PM
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Old 02-12-2009, 04:43 PM
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Thats some run of luck, you've had

Hope it turns round for you soon
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Old 02-12-2009, 07:23 PM
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Old 02-12-2009, 09:59 PM
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What have I done to deserves this ! Taking my youngest son to Haywards Heath this morning when I heard a rubbling noise coming from the engine, this became to very loud Knocking noise, you guessed it " Bottom end". I have only done 520 miles in it. The garage is coming to pick it up shortly.
Going up to Brdford this afternoon with my middle son to look at a very nice Ra, lets hope we have a bit more luck.
A very p***ed off Martyn.
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On a WRX I had years back. I had what sounded like a bottom end go. I took it to the stealers. They said definately bottom end and wanted big bucks. It sounded like the bottom end - I wasnt convinced. I took it too my AA patrol mate - again verdict bottom end. I took it to an independent subaru mechanic - turned out to be the water pump! So get a second and third view of it as sometimes what sounds terminal isnt. (as in the tensioner example given above). A compression test is your best bet.
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