Cambelt Intervals
Discussion
you'll see various figures quoted from different sources.
From 120K miles and no time interval, to every 4 years irrespective of mileage. To confuse things further, VW, Audi,and SEAT (UK dealers) will quote different intervals for the same engine.
5 years was the most common figure quoted to me asking at dealers and indies.
Look for a local VW group indie you should get it done for approx £500.
From 120K miles and no time interval, to every 4 years irrespective of mileage. To confuse things further, VW, Audi,and SEAT (UK dealers) will quote different intervals for the same engine.
5 years was the most common figure quoted to me asking at dealers and indies.
Look for a local VW group indie you should get it done for approx £500.
The time interval is easy - VW UK say 5yrs for post 2009 cars. https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/need-help/need-hel... They don't mention mileage as they assume no normal user will hit the mileage limit in 5yrs.
VW Germany has no time based demand. They go on mileage. The mileage seems to vary wherever you look and which engine it is - I know on wife's EA288 (I thnk that's the one after the OP's) engine it's 210,000kms (130K miles).
VW have whacked up the price of this job, and many indies seem to have followed suit too.
VW Germany has no time based demand. They go on mileage. The mileage seems to vary wherever you look and which engine it is - I know on wife's EA288 (I thnk that's the one after the OP's) engine it's 210,000kms (130K miles).
VW have whacked up the price of this job, and many indies seem to have followed suit too.
halo34 said:
Thanks guys - part of the reason I want to move to a chain engine next (330d/A6 3.0 tdi)
Going to suck and see until 5 yrs and go from there.
Paradoxically while I'm looking into a possible car change in our household anything with chains seems to scare me off: I can change a belt myself (usually) but a lot of chains need engines removing to do and aren't always 'sealed for life', though perhaps I'm looking at BMWs/Mercedes and tarring all chain driven engines with the same brush.Going to suck and see until 5 yrs and go from there.
Does the Passatt engine have to come out for this job? I guess not as £500 would be too little for that, maybe just very involved strip down, or maybe some special tools. I found my son's Fiesta belt harder than my own Ka was (and both those far harder than the old Ford CVH belt or my RS2000 pinto engine belt changes were), but these days there is more stuff in the way with PAS and air con I suppose.
Auxiliary belts are often overlooked and can shred finding their way into the timing belt cover on some models so well worth changing these regularly for what they cost.
Happened on my brother in laws 2010 Audi A3 2.0 Tdi 140, needed a recon head etc and caused around £1000 worth of damage for the sake of a £10 belt.
Happened on my brother in laws 2010 Audi A3 2.0 Tdi 140, needed a recon head etc and caused around £1000 worth of damage for the sake of a £10 belt.
EC2 said:
It is annoying that my VW states five years but Volvo are happy to let my petrol XC90 go to eight or ten years (can’t remember which). For a low value car five years is very frequent especially as it is only on 20000 miles (Polo).
Volvo do say to change the aux belt and tensioner more regularly though (as this has killed a number of 5 pots) But VW group seems to be the worst out of all the manufacturers, however they are the ones that seem to suffer from cambelt failures more than othersGassing Station | Audi, Seat, Skoda & VW | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff