Climate Compressor Pulley

[Gotbadger]

I've had the belts off doing some jobs and noticed that the climate compressor pulley is not really spinning freely. Looking on Real OEM here it looks like you have to replace the whole tensioning unit (p/n: 11287512758) https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=BT33-USA-06-2003-E85-BMW-Z4_25i&diagId=11_8516

Question is is this true or since i just want to replace the pulley can you get it alone? They look very similar to the ones on the aux belt to my eye but want know if anyone knows for sure.

 

[caius]

I've got a secondhand aux tensioner that runs true if you want it to try swapping the pulleys over between the two. Picked it up cheap for that 2.5i because I thought the aux tensioner pulley was squealing, but never replaced it and it stopped squealing from memory. Happy to send it your way.

 

[Gotbadger]

Would be handy!