Trouble and Tension

If you have a Mercedes of any type at all, then go and join The Mercedes Benz Owner’s Club. I cannot state this more strongly. It is very good value for money indeed. I have been a quiet member for a few years now and I don’t really contribute very much. When I first joined the club the best thing about it for me was the magazine…..I didn’t bother with the various meetings and stuff.

Although they have a presence on the web, they generally had the policy of ensuring that nothing was published on there that was not also in the magazine. However, all that seems to be changing now and that is because of the very excellent Bulletin Board that they maintain.

Since I am not really all that clever with cars I have on occasion come unstuck in the middle of a job but I have always found a solution on this board.

On this occasion I was concerned about this problem with my belt tensioner. One of the regulars on the bulletin board sent me these pictures of the mechanism stripped off an engine and all is revealed! This was a job that I could easily have tackled myself. I say ‘could have’ because I booked my car in to a garage about 2 minutes before I got these pictures. With the aid of these pictures I could have done this job I reckon.

Oh well, the weather was particularly wet and I have no garage to work in but I shouldn’t have chickened out of it.

Let’s see how much it costs to have the professionals do the job!

I has been in the garage now for 3 days and is stuck there waiting for a part…….



What the tensioner looks like 1


What the tensioner looks like 2


What the tensioner looks like 3