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bigtug

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Hi guys i had no4 coil go on me today and of course it was one under the plenum chamber.all very easy to do if u have a bit of spare time on ure hands on a saturday it took me about one and a half hours the only difficult part was loosining the two 10mill nuts on the back rubber mountings.the coil cost 31 plus the vat .could have got one cheaper but out of stock.while ihad it in bits i took the time to get the cam belt looked at for ware.for a ten year old belt with 29000 on it it looks great.
 
There is a belief that the belt should be changed every 5 years or 72k miles. If your 9 year old belt looks in good condition then I wonder if it really is? Would a car stored for 5 years still need a new belt?
 
Well james my girlfriend had her car serviced at fordthis morning. Its 5 yrs old and done 78k. I thought she best check if cambelt needed doing and when. The garage said it needs doing every 10 yrs or 100k!!
General opinion in that if car is stood for a long time then belt is in same position and therefore will take that shape so would need changing.
 
Matt":28zrtoej said:
Well james my girlfriend had her car serviced at fordthis morning. Its 5 yrs old and done 78k. I thought she best check if cambelt needed doing and when. The garage said it needs doing every 10 yrs or 100k!!
General opinion in that if car is stood for a long time then belt is in same position and therefore will take that shape so would need changing.

I just got a Fiesta and was looking through the service book. Sure its not a Chain rather than a belt as it states it doesnt changed untill 100k something which is great!
 
If it was a chain then surely it would never need replacing? Why couldn't ours be chains like the 911s.
 
I do keep thinking that the cambelt story in and old wives tale invented by Renault to make lots of money. Not willing to take the risk myself but have no worries doing it a few months late when it's due this September :s
 
Scott has had to rebuild an engine where an overdue belt went..........did a lot of damage.
I had the aux belt start to disintergrate after 4 years and 35000 miles, it looked fine up until then.
When do you anticipate changing?...at the rate you're going 72000 miles will be another 10 years.
Fingers crossed for you.
 
personally i do not think the gamble is worth the risk. you could almost buy another v6 for the cost of fixing it.
 
Hi,
You all seem to be missing the point it's not the belt that breaks due to age or wear that is a knock on effect of general wear in the belt tensioners also if a cam belt also drives the water pump and the pump shaft or centre bearing fails at high revs the cam belt will jump a few teeth with catastropiic failure of the valve train.

Cold Fusion.
 
Mike T":2mwxn60o said:
I'll let mine know it shouldn't have broken and should jump next time!

Mike is your car at SG Motorsport? If so i saw it yesterday as mine is there now.
 
There is a belief that the belt should be changed every 5 years or 72k miles. If your 9 year old belt looks in good condition then I wonder if it really is? Would a car stored for 5 years still need a new belt?

I have the same problem. I have the oldest Phase II at 8 years old, but still less than 6000 miles on the clock and the belt still looks perfect like new so what to do?

I have a few friends with V6 Avantimes (essentially the same engine as the Vee) 8 yrs old 70K miles looked perfect, 6 years old 50K miles looked wrecked.

Also had a belt fray and break on a Porsche 968 at 59,000 miles, due to be changed at 60,000, happened just as I switched the car off so luckily no damage done.
 
Had my Toyota belt done last year on a DOHC Turbo engine, it was 18 years old and around 70k miles.

I think many of us have seen parts removed from Vees following cambelt changes, including water pumps, which have looked and felt perfect so guess it's just how much you want to follow the service schedule v the calculated risk - which is probably low in a well looked after low mileage car. I would hazard a guess that mileage has more of an impact than time.

Martin
 
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