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03 ford focus

  • 16-05-2012 10:04pm
    #1
    oldfella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭


    hi..could someone tell me at what mileage the timing belt should be changed at..it has 70,000 currently ...
    thanks


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  • #2
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    10 years or 100,000 miles whichever comes first.


  • #3
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    oldfella wrote: »
    hi..could someone tell me at what mileage the timing belt should be changed at..it has 70,000 currently ...
    thanks


    Engine type??


  • #4
    oldfella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭oldfella


    sorry should have said..its the 1.4 petrol model


  • #5
    Avns1s
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    AFAIR, The "recommended" interval is the same for all focus engines but there is a school of thought that suggest the interval is far to long for the diesels.


  • #6
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    oldfella wrote: »
    sorry should have said..its the 1.4 petrol model

    Then its as above, 100,000 miles or 10 years.


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  • #7
    George Dalton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭George Dalton


    Avns1s wrote: »
    AFAIR, The "recommended" interval is the same for all focus engines but there is a school of thought that suggest the interval is far to long for the diesels.

    A misinformed school of thought IMO. I have never seen a belt break on a Mk1 Focus diesel and we look after plenty of them. Our own 2003 1.8TDDI work van has 223k miles on it and gets driven hard every day by several different drivers. It has had the belt changed twice more or less at the recommended interval. Both times the old belt was found to be in very good condition upon removal. The old 1.8 diesel in the Mk1 and Mk2 Mondeo was a different story however. They loved to break timing belts...


  • #8
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    George Dalton wrote: »
    A misinformed school of thought IMO. I have never seen a belt break on a Mk1 Focus diesel and we look after plenty of them. Our own 2003 1.8TDDI work van has 223k miles on it and gets driven hard every day by several different drivers. It has had the belt changed twice more or less at the recommended interval. Both times the old belt was found to be in very good condition upon removal. The old 1.8 diesel in the Mk1 and Mk2 Mondeo was a different story however. They loved to break timing belts...

    I don't disagree. However, the average interval across all cars of that era was much shorter on both petrols and diesels than it was on the focus. With stories of catastrophic damage from broken timing belts not changed on time, I can well understand why people would be nervous about a long interval.


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