Re: Timing belt broke after 50k miles?!

not if the idles pulley or if it has one the water pump failed taking
out the belt

"John S." wrote:

> On May 5, 11:52 am, 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?
>
> > is 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.