Evening all,
I had my car serviced last week. Its done 22,500 miles, 7 yr old K-series R300.
As well as a oil change etc, i had the foam replaced and the cambelt changed.
I picked the car up in the pouring rain for a 15 minute run back home so was being carefull. However, i noticed straight away that the engine note seemed a tiny but different.. during the drive home i noticed the revs not picking up as keenly as before..
Now i put this down to a nice fresh sevice and perhaps things feeling a little tighter but i have just been on a long run down to the west country and it just doesn't seem to 'parp' or rev so quickly when i blip the throttle on downshifts and perhaps just a tiny bit laboured on take off... i certainly am not getting quite as much noise and pops as i had before..
I haven't spoken to garage yet as i wanted to get a feeling first from here as to whether the engine should feel a little 'tighter' after a cam belt change?
The other thing is when i am going slowly in first and second, i appear to have suddenly developed the dreaded kangaroo foot.. something of which i only had in the first few hours of ownership nearly 8 years ago... This is something that is a definate change from before and feels to me like the engine is starting it and not my foot bouncing!!
Any advice is much appreciated
A rather concerned Tom ☹️