Think my timing chain/belt might be about to go ?
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:44 pm
Ok so this is a rant jump to **** to skip boring parts if you wish
So long story short was turning right at a roundabout and car went crazy skidding across the roundabout , took it into garage near to me and guy was a bit of a cowboy still don't know what he did to this day track rod end or something 'apparently' , wasn't happy with this so took it into another garage a more well known one who is spoke highly of in my area, turns out was tracking and something to do with steering and said other guy should have noticed how bad it was cracks and all apparentlu ,(have you figured out i'm a girl yet? ) anyway he fixed all that and got it back on Friday , so I gets a taxi home from work straight to the car and jump in it put engine on and boom ! on pops the oil pressure light, stupid me makes a small journey before checking what it was after journey checked what it was ok oil was low so then put in some oil , light stayed on for a while after this so comes Monday I gets my dad to phone the garage again and now have to wait till Friday till get it in again, now a friend of mine who has little experience says it might be a hole in the exhaust, now I don't know a lot about cars infact anything about cars but when you pop the bonnet the noise seems like its coming from the belt to the left of the engine (video soon) with a bit of googling I think this is timing belt/chain I don't even know if thats the same thing or different ? Seems like this is a massive job i'm just 20 , owned the car approx a month and now I am put off the car altogher any ideas ?
*** Belt left of engine is making a loud noise, what could it be? Video to follow......
Details : corsa envoy 12v 97
So long story short was turning right at a roundabout and car went crazy skidding across the roundabout , took it into garage near to me and guy was a bit of a cowboy still don't know what he did to this day track rod end or something 'apparently' , wasn't happy with this so took it into another garage a more well known one who is spoke highly of in my area, turns out was tracking and something to do with steering and said other guy should have noticed how bad it was cracks and all apparentlu ,(have you figured out i'm a girl yet? ) anyway he fixed all that and got it back on Friday , so I gets a taxi home from work straight to the car and jump in it put engine on and boom ! on pops the oil pressure light, stupid me makes a small journey before checking what it was after journey checked what it was ok oil was low so then put in some oil , light stayed on for a while after this so comes Monday I gets my dad to phone the garage again and now have to wait till Friday till get it in again, now a friend of mine who has little experience says it might be a hole in the exhaust, now I don't know a lot about cars infact anything about cars but when you pop the bonnet the noise seems like its coming from the belt to the left of the engine (video soon) with a bit of googling I think this is timing belt/chain I don't even know if thats the same thing or different ? Seems like this is a massive job i'm just 20 , owned the car approx a month and now I am put off the car altogher any ideas ?
*** Belt left of engine is making a loud noise, what could it be? Video to follow......
Details : corsa envoy 12v 97