Cable tie?
Looks like a cable tie in one of your pictures. If it's there to "help" the idler arm tensioner, then that's another item for your list of parts to be replaced.
Only trouble I ever had driving in England was shifting a stick with my left hand -- just couldn't make it move the right way!
Jeremy
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Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
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