My C70 will be 11 years old in February, but it only has 55,000 miles. I guess the short question is am I a moron to be running on the original timing belt for 11 years even though the miles are low?
The longer form of the questions is that I replaced the belt on my 2000 S40 at about 95k because when I looked at it it had lots of fine little cracks in it like it was drying out. But my C70 belt doesn't. It looks fine. So let it go a while longer or replace?
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Visible Signs Timing Belt Failure?
Started by DouginDenver, Nov 14 2009 12:06 AM
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Posted 14 November 2009 - 12:06 AM
'99 C70 LPT convertible - nautic blue/tan - all stock - 42,000 miles.
'00 S40 1.8t - summer green/gray leather - 97,000 miles.
'00 S40 1.8t - summer green/gray leather - 97,000 miles.
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Posted 14 November 2009 - 12:09 AM
change it asap. even if it "looks" good i wouldnt trust it. on these cars the first thing i do is the timing belt along with a tune up.
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Posted 14 November 2009 - 12:58 AM
The service interval on your belt is 10 years of 105k, whichever comes first. Usually the belts themselves do not fail, it is the tensioner or idler pulley that fail and let the belt break. Go ahead and do the belt and save yourself some headaches.
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Posted 15 November 2009 - 12:31 AM
Ihatespeedbumps, on 14 November 2009 - 12:58 AM, said:
The service interval on your belt is 10 years of 105k, whichever comes first. Usually the belts themselves do not fail, it is the tensioner or idler pulley that fail and let the belt break. Go ahead and do the belt and save yourself some headaches.
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Posted 15 November 2009 - 01:44 AM
belts do break, ive had a few 740 oe volvo belts grabe on me after 2.5 years with 35k or so on the belt
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