[911nut]

The mechanic of the PO of my '82 SC told me the following story when we were discussing the upgrade to Carrera tensioners: a customer who drove his '77 S over 100 miles round trip to work every day brought his car in due to a rattling noise he heard at idle. The mechanic diagnosed the problem as a possible tensioner failure. Due to the shop's backlog of work he couldn't repair it until the following week. The customer dutifully returned with the car the following week and the mechanic learned that the customer had continued to drive the S to work since the last visit! The mechanic found no damage caused by driving with the failed tensioner. However had the customer decided to do a DE or trackday the previous weekend the outcome may not have been as favorable.