Hi all.

My cam belt is well over due now, I am currently working on my car to replace the clutch and cambelt.
My car has got 100k on the clock now and I'm assuming the cam belt is 15 years old. I've check my service history, (from the previous owner, and I bought through a ford garage) and there isn't really any details on the services, other than the stamps. I've owned the car for just over 6 years and the car only had 45k on the clock, so would have been 9 years old, so I don't know weather the ford garage would have changed the cambelt or not. The cambelt looks good I think, the edges on the teeth are slightly ragged, the surface doesn't have any cracks, but it has a path (is the only way I can descrive it) in the middle where I assume the water pump is running along it? But other than that the condition looks good.

Is it worth replacing or carrying on with it?

Btw, car is a mk4 fiesta, and the cam belt is garuenteed for 10 years / 100k miles.

Cheers, Jason

 

the general rule with timing belts is simple
if theres any question at all with it then change it
cost of a belt compared to cost of a top end rebuild when it breaks?
only makes sence to change it

oh and you say that its gauranteed for 100k miles,
no manufacturer actualy gaurantee's their belts, its just a recomended change interval,
thay always state that it should be inspected early and changed id required
so best to change it to be on the safe side
if it only had 45k when you bought it, then its unlikely to have ever been changed before

 

You've gone to the effort of taking it off to check it, spend 30 quid and stick a new one on then forget about it for a few more years.

 

OK, cheers for that

Jason

 

i'd leave it but then i prefer to change an engine than a belt

 

As much as i'd like to drop a puma 1.7 lump in there, I can't afford to spare that kind of money lol.

 

cambelt can like fine then snap the next day change her mate