Originally Posted by test point

Welcome to the forum!

The ONLY way to be sure is to remove BOTH valve covers. There has been more than one post on finding only one tensioner replaced.

Originally Posted by danielsand

I still have the receipt. AND I am an attorney by profession. However,......at the time of the purchase I did not know that there are three generations of tensioners in these cars! I've heard (from my mechanic) that in order for these cars to be worry free (like ANY machinery ever is!), certain things need to be done. One of them was "secondary timing chain tensioner upgrade". They were upgraded. From the original plastic ones, to the plastic ones with an external spring. They are not metal. Seller didn't mispresent anything. I doubt HE knew what generation tensioners were installed. The receipt simply says "timing chain tensioners replaced". Nothing else,...... and NO recourse.

I was telling the OP, not to relay on the paperwork (no matter how descriptive it might be), but to open the covers and look. And I should've done the same a year ago. Looks like I got lucky, and the whole fiasco will cost me only 300 (it would cost the same if I performed the upgrade before the failure) which I consider the "dinner money". But I learned!

Since I plan to buy the Range Rover, I think I should join the forum BEFORE I buy it, and learn as much as I can. I fall in love (cars, women, whatever), and THEN I do my "research"! A$$backwards.

Originally Posted by xjay8

Hahaha....Dainesland....sounds like you should take over 'Plum's' title...."Living on the edge" ;o)=)