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The compensator on my car has started to get noisy or at least I take it to be the compensator. I was occasionally getting a rattle at cold start but it would go away. Today at 2800 miles it was rattling at start, but now at town speeds & light load or overrun its rattling. It quietens on load & not noticed it at higher speed.
My car does not have the grease nipple fitted to the compensator. I've contacted the dealer to see if a grease nipple can be fitted. My car No 0757 was built June 2013 I believe. If greasing is not possible or does not stop the rattle I asked cost to me of an upgraded Centa compensator. Can the dealer fit this?

Tim

This sounds very like the dreaded Compensator failure....am afraid it will get worse:(((

Only solution is a new Centra drive. The dealer can fit - it goes into the existing bell housing.

If it is this you may find that the dealer will forgo the pleasure of fitting as it is a very big job and they will never do it in the target amount of time MMC recommend.

Good luck, it may not be that bad.

My dealer did fit a grease nipple and I must say the compensator is transformed. Much less rattles but a new whine, if I may call it that. Maybe the whine was hidden by the old rattles, who knows? Quieter, but not by any means quiet.
It now allows 2200 rpm and above without problems.

It makes a BIG difference.

My car is #674, built i April -13.

Donald
Did you have the Centra compensator fitted with your upgrades? Do you think this is the answer to the compensator problem?

tim

Tim,

yes I had the factory do the upgrades. It seemed a little unfair that they wanted the car back there rather than let the dealer do it.

I had the NVH (IMHO pointless and very expensive) the fan (Good if you are in warm climes or traffic) and the Comfort Pack! They noticed after changing the BB that the compensator was goosed. It needed a quieter BB to hear the bag of spanners moving about. The new Centa is not quiet but maybe better as long as you keep the revs on. I cannot say definitively that it is the answer.

Tim
Don't know of any Centa failures. The Centa does make its own rattles but fewer than the original type and doesn't need the same degree of care when driving to avoid the full on clattering.
Only time and miles will tell if the Centa is as good as it is billed.

My compensator has been quiet up to now.
By the way John Printie has left Revolutions to look after his wife. Kimberly is picking up the phone & doing liason.

Tim

get the centra. as red three states is the only long term solution as the other routes are just bandaids to an inferior setup unfortunately.

Centa is no panacea but an improvement and should last.