Originally Posted by moonstone mike
I have only done 4000 miles on my cam belt but it was changed 8 years ago do you think its worth changing????????????
do they have a shelf life

you must renew it. it is always dangerous when going over the change intervals.
and when you havent runned the engine for long time, something like a year, the belt could just snap. you should run the engine to normal temp, preferably atleast once a month to keep things in good condition.
when driving very little, i would adwise to do the same as swerv does.