"John S." <hjsjms@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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May 5, 5:47 pm, "HLS" <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "John S." <hjs...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:6010c494-0cdd-406e-a687-
>
> Again, have you determined that this is a broken timing belt. And
> have asked the dealer how long parts that they install are warranted
> for. Those are questions that you will not get straight answers to on
> an internet discussion forum.
>
> You certainly wont, and you wont get them from some dealer****ps EITHER.
>
> 50 k (miles, I assume) is a bit less than one would expect. You are darn
> lucky that, if this turns out to be a snapped belt, you dont have an
> interference
> engine.
You work with strange dealer****ps. The legitimate dealer****ps I deal
with provide a very legible disclosure of how long replacement parts
are warranted for. But the real point here is that the original
poster should first determine what the problem is. He hasn't
determined that the belt broke, but just seems to be fi****ng for
attention.
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First of all, what's an "interference engine"? I've never heard that term
before.
Secondly, I'm puzzled by some people's reluctance to answer the OP's
question: "Is 50K a short lifetime for a timing belt?". It's immaterial
whether he's established whather this is the cause of his problem - and in
his followup he even said "Lets just assume it is the timing belt".
I'd say that if the replacement interval for routinely replacing the
timing
belt is X thousand miles and the replacement belt fails within that time,
someone should be held liable - whether it's the manufacturer (defective
part), garage who fitted it (defective workman****p) or car maker
(incorrect
service interval specified).
On a related note, I'd like to know how a garage can examine my fan-belt
(well, alternator and power-steering belt) amongst other things at a
service, and mark it as "visually checked - OK", and yet the belt breaks
one
week later... Surely the reason for visually checking a belt is to detect
imminent failure *before* it happens, to avoid stranding me in the middle
of
nowhere late at night, requiring me to be towed home. To add insult to
injury, the replaced belt broke one month later because there had been
undiagnosed damage to the crankshaft pulley that hadn't been picked up
when
the belt and idler pulley were replaced :-( The garage reluctantly made a
goodwill payment of a mere £20 - less than a tenth of the cost of the belt
replacement.
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