Musky - Will give the tightening thing another shot tomorrow (not going back to my mates tonight, sick of the sight of the bottom of that engine!) but last time we did it, it was as tight as it would go and we were just starting to round the 24mm bolt. With another foot long spanner on the...

Firstly, I apologise if I come across as rude, but I'm here for solutions, not to make friends. You seem like a nice bunch of people and, believe it or not, I'm generally a nice person too. But when your mate is in a really bad position due to this cluster-fu*k, details of which I won't bore...

No problem, I know that most of the time it is incorrect routing. I know for a fact the routing is correct. Having been told the routing might be wrong so many times, we keep checking it and checking it to make sure, it is 100% the correct way on according to the "Replacing Belt" .pdf...

No, I'm going by photos and a diagram I drew before I took the old one off. The document in that thread you posted is exactly what I'm doing. Sorry to sound short with people but I made quite clear in my original post - 1. The routing is correct. 2. It is the correct belt. As I know...

100% sure the routing is correct, I made that clear. Sorry to sound obvious but this is really winding us up now. Both new and old belt will not go back on, as I say. Possible tensioner fault? Is there a way to adjust the tensioner?

Helping a friend fix his Land Rover Freelander TD4 (54 plate - 2004). Dodgy electrics, pointed to a bad alternator, but we also noticed the belt was slipping and bouncing around a lot, so before spending a lot of money on a new alternator, replacing the belt seemed the best option. The...