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Re: Service Interval/Timing Belt
80k or four years for the V6 belt, also will need a pump belt.
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Re: Service Interval/Timing Belt
Yeah the diesel pump has its own belt and tensioner.
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Always do the cam belt earlier if its school run type miles.
Its the stopping and starting, not the motorway miles that gets them. My pal a Land rover service engineer says "Always change the adjuster pulley as well".
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Re: Service Interval/Timing Belt
Hell no, its a massive job and a right pain in the **** to boot. Might as well stick a water pump on whilst your in there. The bearings have been known to collapse in them.
__________________ 1988 Golf GTi - Made up of MK2, MK3 and MK4 Golf and Corrado parts also bits of Audi TT and even Ibiza Cupra. Truly a VAG car indeed.
I bought a 2002 low mileage 1.8T which had done less than 20,000 when I bought it last year. There is nothing in any of the docs that came with the car to say it has had the belt changed.
I bought the car from a Skoda dealer and they serviced it before I took the car away.
If the belt was due to be done then they should have done it ?
Is there any way of checking if the belt has been changed by looking at it. Or should I just assume that it hasn't and get it done ASAP..
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