MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Lewo on March 11, 2016, 11:16:28 pm

Title: Cam follower changed today
Post by: Lewo on March 11, 2016, 11:16:28 pm

A mate changed this for me today, 96k miles. Piece of mind now..... cheers for the guide vRS Carl  :happy2:  :congrats:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fhh353%2Fgranny_ring%2Fcam_follower_zpstx1vo8jo.jpg&hash=766cde2c859603f267dbbafbcb8a79f70696aeb7)

Trying to work out if mine was stage 1 or 2 in the Rtech wear scale?!  :scared:

Title: Re: Cam follower changed today
Post by: Dan_FR on March 12, 2016, 07:41:40 am

You'll be ok damage wise I would think, but it needed changing!

Title: Re: Cam follower changed today
Post by: rashg60 on March 12, 2016, 08:07:26 am

I still need to do mine. Was supposed to do it last weekend.

Have you got the link to the guide you followed and how easy/hard was it?

Title: Re: Cam follower changed today
Post by: Lewo on March 12, 2016, 08:45:37 am

 http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,8339.0.html  (http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,8339.0.html)

Once we'd wrestled off the engine cover, 15-20 mins I guess.

Title: Re: Cam follower changed today
Post by: rashg60 on March 12, 2016, 01:20:41 pm

Thanks - any noticeable difference with the new one installed?

Title: Re: Cam follower changed today
Post by: WaLLeMs on March 12, 2016, 10:58:10 pm

This is mine I did 2 weeks ago, 94100 on the clock

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fuploads.tapatalk-cdn.com%2F20160312%2F364afa72cc3cb49f56c22175fba1e77b.jpg&hash=5aae23377a7885fc6bd2495ff2ca361e6c12ad5d)

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Title: Re: Cam follower changed today
Post by: bonelorry on March 13, 2016, 04:24:00 pm

Quote from: rashg60 on March 12, 2016, 01:20:41 pm

Thanks - any noticeable difference with the new one installed?

The car should run the same, Its not something that will effect the running unless the follower fails.....Then it gets expensive!

Should be a serviceable item, I replaced mine on my 40K Golf R within the First Week of ownership. Annoyed the hell out of me driving the car and not knowing if it had ever been replaced.