[Britwrench]

Wayne,

While I can understand the reasoning behind this bulletin, it does not prove that the tensioners supplied over the last year or so were not faulty. At one time we had ten sets of leaking units ready to return. All of them were collapsing, even when we used the pump-with-oil test. In fact, if you use an ordinary oil can and pump oil into the feed line you can test a new or used tensioner.

At the moment I don't have any confidence in this type of tensioner and the bulleting actually makes me more suspicious;
those parts have been manufactured for the last 18 or so years and now there's a problem? I don't think so.

Maybe it's like a lot of the Porsche parts now, they aren't made anywhere near Germany anymore... (Bosch WR7DC plugs; made in India?)