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This Forum has 2,481 members (people who have signed up and made at least one post). Active members is anyone's guess, I suppose somewhere between 100-200, call it 10%. Most of the non-contributors were either looking to buy, or looking to sell, and only visited a couple of times. Others came in around 2005 when Eric started this site and have likely moved on from ownership by now.
Over the years I have only heard of a few required tensioner replacements, mostly on cars that sat for a very long time. Keeping up with maintenance would appear to be the best defense against this part needing replacement.
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What he said, drive them more
If that $100k car has a seized tensioner, and cant be replaced the car is now worthless
Drive the things, Porsche did not build them to be worshipped, built to be used and in real anger from time to time
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Oh I would like to add that they are incredibly hard to compress, mechanics that are used to 944s think they are seized which they are not, once compressed if you pull the pin they fly out
I would suggest that the 5000 replacements have been used up very quickly by unnecessary replacements at every belt service, simply by mechanics that dont know what they are doing
I have a buddy that runs an Audi VW independent garage, in the 22 years he has been in business he has replaced 3 hydraulic tensioners, due to idiot apprentices breaking them
They just dont go wrong
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We got a tensioner delivered to the uk this week from rock auto
Seems to be an ok part, only time will tell it was £150 delivered
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By the time you need it the rubber will be rotted and you'll have to find a new one
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And your original will still working fine
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