Volvo D5 Auxiliary / Serpentine Belt Replacement 

thank you for that, my belt snapped just few minutes ago , I was lucky timing belt survived.

Thank you Sir for your video, you are a lifesaver. First my idler pulley disassembled itself, and i used your video to swap it out. Then i changed the engine oil with your other video. Please make more like these! '03 S60 D5

Thank you SiRobb for another great "DIY-fixing"-video about the Volvo D5. The film helped me on how to loosen the serpentine belt so I could change the steering pump on my Volvo XC90 2012 R-Design D5 without any major problems :)

Another great video from SiRobb. I had to take out the power steering pump and alternator to do this - the Torx needed tapping in as the splines were a bit rounded by a previous mechanic/owner. Not a big job but the moral support from this channel always helps - New alternator pulley and now have a very quiet engine! - Thanks again Si. Great stuff!!!

Thanks @SiRobb for a great video. It gave me the courage to do it myself. Unfortunately, it looks like I had received the wrong type of tensioner. The car originally had the one with the bolt on the lower part of the tensioner, the replacement part I received had the lower bolt in the same location as the one you used in the video. Despite the differences, the replecament tensioner did fit, the bolts actually lined up perfectly. And I actually drove about 20 miles and it worked without problems. No noises and the belt runs perfectly. I will however change it to the correct part this weekend, to help me sleep better. :)

Thanks so much. I got the wrong part from the store, they said it was the right one when they looked up the vin number. Morons. So i tried to find the bolt when comparing to the spare but couldn't find and then tried to locate it but couldn't. Then when i tried to find a video with the same tensioner model for the D5 there wasn't any. But then i found this, huge huge thanks you are a legend!!! Thanks thanks million times! God bless

Brilliant writeup. I have a Volvo 850 T5 and was having trouble replacing timing belt while doing a head gasket job. Thanks for sharing!

Excellent video, thank you for producing - this’ll help me replace a V70 D3 (2.0 5cyl) auxiliary belt and associated parts.

Thanks for sharing, I noticed that 2 years ago before I changed my belt I had a rattling noise, so I changed tensioner pulley, but that didn't change a thing, then I changed the the belt and rattling noise went away. Now 2 years later I can hear the rattle again so will try to change the belt now first.

Another splendid video. The tip about the T60 slot on the tensioner is great. I had no idea and would have used the pulley bolt. Thank you.

Yet another great how to keep up the good work and thanks for sharing. mike

Hi SiRobb. Good advice, thanks for posting this vid. Funny thing, I found that my tensioner does'nt have a wee hole like in your vid. Then when I had it off, I could see clearly why that is. There is a bolt or something similar snapped off inside it. Beware the cannibals. Any how, its all good now. No more silly squeaky noises.

Thanks Rob, very helpful.

Great video and very informing

Useful video, thank you. I've got an early D5 engine myself with a nasty sound from that area that sounds like a commercial dishwasher when its running. One job to do it to take the belt off and check the pulleys so your video is now 'book marked'.

brilliant video we all know now how to change the belt brilliant

Thanks a lot, mate! Really helpful!

Thanks for the video!could not have done it without your help

The best Volvo repair video’s anywhere, my belt is very noisy and is flapping about a lot from the aircon to steering pump, belt looks okay & alternator pulley is going around could this be worn out tensioner or belt?

Great help, thanks so much for putting this on!

Good video.

Nice presentation - thank you for your tips!

Great Video. Thanks for posting.

Even though the engine code (d5244t) is the same this is for the earlier engines with the bolt through the bottom pulley (349808) the slightly later ones (349809) have the bottom bolt not going through the pulley and it's slightly lower down.

Tnx for video - best ever seen man,

Thx Sir Robb! I manged to change the tensioner during the weekend on my XC70 D5 2005 model, I did remove the front right wheel to be able to work from below as well, I would not have been able to locate the bolts to remove the tensioner without my special mirror. I also found it very tight for my big hands plus my 1/2 ratchet felt too big at times, hence it was hard to get it out after I changed the location after locking the tensioner with a nail. What kind of ratchet did you use? I recon small than 1/2 inch right? 3/8? If so the head would be smaller and giving you more space against the wall of the engine bay. Thx again for this video!

Great video . Thanks

nice one,many thanks for video :)

great video! i love you! it was what I had been looking for days! one question: the measure torx for leverage? 70? 60?

Hopefully I will get a reply . How tight should the belt be . Thank you

Hi! Just found out in the course of the last two days that our tensioner has no through hole in the "relaxed" position of the belt... Believe me, it bordered on torture to get the new belt on!

Nice job

Thanks for your great video. Do you know which tightening torques (NM) the rollers of the tensioner are tightened?

I miss the part where the power steering container is stuck to the coolant container and how to get it unstuck

Hi bud would you be able to do a video of jacking up the front using a trolley jack to place the car onto axle stands. Would be very helpful. Thanks 👍

Hello! My 11 plate xc60 DrivE is in the garrage, the are struggling to get the correct tensioner. They've been told by volvo it will need modifying to fit now, apparently £500. Somthing about drilling the engine block as it would be a mechanical not hydraulic tensioner. Do you know anything about this? Any recommendations?

hiya m8, ive got the mark 3 v70 d5 its got 2 aux belts and ive noticed today that the alt clutch pully is " stuck" both ways when screw driver is inserted in the blades. can this corze the aux belt to snap? if left .

done today, thank you

Big thanks!!!

many thanks !

Nice video but you should put the model year of the car you are working on in the title. I just spent 15 mins watching but my car is a 2010.

Hi @SiRobb have you got any good tips for changing the belt on 2011 D5, there is absolutely no way of making that much access room on my car because of the top motor mounting bracket. I've got the belt 90% on but I can't get at the tensioner to release the tension, I've been able to roughly check the pullies but I now I'm stuck.. The belt broke last night, luckily nothing happened besides an alternator warning showing up. 😳

cheers mate jobs a gud un

There are 2 belts available 1825 mm and 1841 mm. Do you know which one is this?

Also, the car has done 107k miles & is a 53 plate, the timing belt was replaced in 2012 but only on 53k miles(it’s done approximately 6k miles per year) on the MOT history so although the belt has done only about 60k miles but is 10years old should it be changed?

Hi, just got a V70 D5 163 and finding your videos most useful, I think I need to change my aux belt tensioner as there is slipping belt sound for about 2 seconds when taking up drive at low revs(its an automatic) first heard the noise when test driving at dealer, he had the aux belt renewed and the noise reduced a lot but still remains as I say only when taking up drive at low revs, no sound at idle or normal driving. Does that sound like my tensioner? or perhaps the alternator clutch seizing as in your other video? Also I noticed there is 2 variants to the tensioners, one without the idler pulley an one with, I'm wondering how you would determine which variant you need without having to disassemble everything to find out? Many thanks for taking the time to answer questions and create these helpful videos. Steve

I don't understand. You have to remove a part, to get the part out. Ok. So how does the new part fit back in then?

The White Chisora You tension and lock the spring loaded tensioner pulley. Explained from 3.30

done this today on my xc90 had to replace the top idler wheel/tensioner pulley thats upon fitting the belt it runs ok but the belt seems to be over to the left ive tried moving it back but upon running it puts itself back is this normal in this pulley dont want it slipping off

its a 3-4 hour job if you change the tensioner too on my xc90 because there is no space and fuck this shit. but possible and this video covers almost everything. also i broke the power steering resevoar clip

Hi, I happen to have a XC90 T6 which I believe is a bit different from D5. Would you be able to advice how different is timing / aux belt set up for the T6 vs D5? Many thanks in advance. Namo Amituofo

Im confused. Isnt the ribs on the belt supposed to be towards the ribs on the wheels? Looks like the belt is upside down.

Hi Simon. Trying to do this job today and found my low-profile socket wrench and T60 bit *just* won't fit in the gap to release the tensioner. Any tips - do you think mole grips around the T60 bit would suffice?

Thx Sir Robb! Do you or anyone have the Volvo Part No. for the Idler pulley? Have any of you ever changed the idler pulley?

Perfect ... except that white shining newspaper ;)

SirRobb, what year model is your car? S80? S60?

Hi , great video, I have got question about pulley torque. I am just about to change idler pulley and tensioner pulley and I need to know torque for their center bolts, could you tell me please in Nm?

Did u use ratchet to take off idler pulley off? Or flat wrench?

My questions is about the tensioner release at (4:05). Can't we just use 14mm to release tension? yes Recently my mechanic did change roller for timing belt side and he did take off the drive belt as well. But after installing the drive belt my Drive belt tensioner keep moving(back and forth) little bit even on normal running, so what exactly your suggestion is, we should not use 14mm to release tensioner? Kindly elaborate.

if that smooth pulley is the tensioner ive looked for 30 minutes plus with mirrors and havent seen that star torx adustment at all?????????-------what started off easy has turned to total frustration

Love your videos simon but you need to get a new camera the focus gives me a headache :)

Hello .. could you tell me the reference of the belt tensioner? .. to be able to buy it myself.

Great spannering but sadly very poor camera work. Gave me a headache trying to look into the unlit areas where the work was carried out. Even on a bright sunlit day the work area needed illuminating with a lamp. Things appearing from the gloom looked more like conjuring than auto mechanics. Sorry for the criticism. :-(

Morning do you know anyone in Suffolk Norfolk area that works with volvo s need the timing belt change I have the kit ? Thank you very much

drive belt map?

You can be my Father? Thanks