Re: Timing belt broke after 50k miles?!

On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:52:27 -0500, me@[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?  is it
>50k failure out of ordinary?1

The belt is generally guaranteed for the change interval.  All the
other stuff that broke when the belt broke is not.  I don't know your
vehicle so I can't speak with authority but the Gates web site shows
the belt should be changed every 60k (non california) and the engine
is not an interference engine so you won't have bent valves to deal
with.

Some water pumps are driven off the timing belt and there is almost
always a tensioner or two in there that can fail so until you have
someone pull it apart there isn't any way to know what happened.

           Steve B.