squeaky noise from the engine room

[Jaspa]

hi,

english is not my native language so please excuse me.

I want to buy a second hand DS3 VTI 120.

The one i´ve seen i noticed a strange noice. Here is a video i´ve found on youtube that sounds similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIP3jOlHjmw

What could that be?

Thanks for any advice.

[cyclone]

That sounds terrible, I would find another car. It's certainly not normal and why buy something you are going to have to fix right away.

[Bigfeet]

Sounds like it's coming from the pulleys, might be worth giving them a quick spray with WD40.

[Jaspa]

I thougt that is maybe a little problem, with the tension roller or car belt.
Besides the car has 1 year remaining warranty left so perhaps the dealer could repair it? Or maybe its a wearing part and i must buy it myself...?

I can hear it only when the car is idling, when driving its going away.

[cyclone]

The car has 1 year left on warranty? So use the noise as a reason to bargain down the price. Then go back and have it fixed under warranty.

[Jaspa]

Hi yes there is a warranty left till the date 08/2013, and the price is not bad for the car in my region. About 6000€ under ListPrice with ~ 20.000km

[Quazzo]

Say to the person you buying from you fix the noise under warranty then I will consider buying it does sound like a tensioner bearing but so many parts rotate there are other possibles

[Dave Clarke]

It's the timing chain tensioner on the inside of the timing cover, no amounts of spray on oil will stop it.

[Jaspa]

Hi, thanks for replay.
So is there a major repair neccesary? And does the Warranty cover this problem?

Greets form Austria

[Dave Clarke]

Hi, thanks for replay.
So is there a major repair neccesary? And does the Warranty cover this problem?

Greets form Austria

Yes, it was a known fault, so Citroen should fix it.