A hot seat in hell!

[Racemag]

There should be a special hot seat in hell reserved for the engineer that signed off on the VW T4 engine bay. I have never encountered so many sharp corners and hard to access nuts and bolts in any car!

[Transporter]

I have never encountered so many sharp corners and hard to access nuts and bolts in any car!

Then try to work on Alfas.

[Racemag]

you need a second elbow on each arm?

[Syncrotek]

There should be a special hot seat in hell reserved for the engineer that signed off on the VW T4 engine bay. I have never encountered so many sharp corners and hard to access nuts and bolts in any car!

or were they just practicing and getting warmed up for the T5 2.5 ?

[Sunny43.5]

Sorry to say I agree 110% some of the things I see in VW's and yes they are by far the worse for some unbelievable ideas . If you own a VW Golf 7 Never remove the grab handles in the roof lining it 's more fun to flog your self with a cat o nine tails . I cannot understand why one model VW has simple screws to hold the same thing to the body and in another a ridiculous system of suicidal clips which defy removal and require brand new expensive parts just to refit them . Yes I know that at the assembly line a clipped in part would be quicker but some poor sod will eventually have to work on it .

[Racemag]

Did anyone ever have to refit the short crank bolts...460nm! 460! who the hell has a torque wrench that goes that high. Hell 160Nm + 180 deg required a 2m extension!

[Umai Naa!!]

Did you replace the crank bolt?

They're single-use, you know

[Sunny43.5]

Shhh now you tell him .

[Racemag]

yep sure did, though getting the old one off was hell ona stick!
I used a gates belt off ebay and bolt from VW. Belt is very noisy, just hope it's not the water pump as I replaced that 10,000km ago.
I did discover that the engine had a incorrect thermostat fitted which may have contributed to the problems.

[Umai Naa!!]

Perhaps its been over-tensioned?