Re: Timing belt broke after 50k miles?!

On May 5, 11:52=A0am, m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Have a 2000 Mazda Protege ES with 150k on it.
>
> Have taken meticulous care of it and had the timing
> belt changed at 100k by Mazda dealer I bought the
> vehicle new from.
>
> Friday night it stopped dead in its tracks and it
> sounds like the current timing belt has broken!!
>
> Is there any kind of warranty on timing belts?

>=A0is it
> 50k failure out of ordinary?1

That's a question to take up with the dealer who did the work.  The
first thing for the dealer to determine is whether the timing belt
broke.