Timing Belt Question

skywalker_208

Just wondering how often should the timing belt be replaced? (Hyundai Accent)

kluivert

Check your service interval book or contact your local dealer.

Around 50/60k miles

DukeDredd

And if in any doubt about when it was last done get it changed...

bazz26

Around every 40k or 50k miles.

skywalker_208

bazz26 wrote:

Around every 40k or 50k miles.

Ive just actually found out from the garage that it wasnt done when i thought is was.. so im quite a bit over this now!!

bazz26

Would recommend that you book it in to be done soon becuase if the belt snaps you are in serious trouble.

Better safe than sorry.

Cyrus

youll be looking a ta huge bill if it snaps get it done asap

skywalker_208

yea i think ill book it in now.. in fact i dont think it has ever been done!!!!!

Gerry

Keep the revs down until you get it done, wouldn't be much good if it snapped on the way to the garage

Squirrel

What's the milage on it?

stratos

Not all engines are destroyed if the belt snaps.
On some engines the piston won't reach the valves anyway.
Check which yours is on the net sleep easy while you wait.
If you you do however hear a violent pinging sound coming from under the bonnet.
Floor the clutch and turn the engine off pronto.
You might get away with just one bent valve.

comanche

stratos wrote:

Not all engines are destroyed if the belt snaps.
On some engines the piston won't reach the valves anyway.
Check which yours is on the net sleep easy while you wait.
If you you do however hear a violent pinging sound coming from under the bonnet.
Floor the clutch and turn the engine off pronto.
You might get away with just one bent valve.

Yeah depends on if the engine is interferance or non-interferance. i.e. do the valves come down into the piston space or not. Most cares are interferance.

You can be lucky or uncluck with timing belt going. You may just have bent valves and the engine may be salvagable. However you may also get bent valve guides, snapped valve heads, damaged piston heads and shards of metal running around the engine which should in which case you are royally ****ed.

I had a dealer mess up changing a timing belt on my car. Result 8 bent valves when the mechanic started her up. Was sent to a good place in Dunshaughlin and they sorted it - cost the guts of 800 euro for the dealer to fix. Engine runs like a dream. Have 102000 miles on the clock, still very nippy for a 1.4 and feul comsumption is still good..

But long and the short of it, go get the belt changed as soon, it may not snap, but why take the chance?

skywalker_208

Squirrel wrote:

What's the milage on it?

its currently at 80000.. like i said i thought it was done so was arranging for what i thought was the second belt change!

skywalker_208

On another note - any one know how much the cancellation fee is for an NCT test? u get charged if you rearrange within 5 days of the test but it doesnt tell you how much in the terms and conditions....

Dilbert75

Its on the booking confirmation sheet, in bold print! "If you do not give us this minimum notice or fail to show up for the test, a €21.90 surcharge will be applied when you next bring your vehicle for testing."

BTW, on the timing belts, my Fiesta is 9 years old, 66k miles. Have asked two Ford dealers the interval: one said 8 years or 60k, the other said "very definitely 10 years or 100k". An independent mechanic said the interval had been shortened by Ford but yet the local dealer have "never heard tell of one breaking". I've it booked into the independent mechanic for next week.

milltown

stratos wrote:

Not all engines are destroyed if the belt snaps.
On some engines the piston won't reach the valves anyway.
Check which yours is on the net sleep easy while you wait.
If you you do however hear a violent pinging sound coming from under the bonnet.
Floor the clutch and turn the engine off pronto.
You might get away with just one bent valve.

If it's physically possible for a piston to hit a valve, I'd bet dollars to donuts that it's physically impossible for you to get the clutch in and engine off in time for it to make a blind bit of difference.

At low revs, say 2,000 rpm, and assuming about five seconds reaction time for you to figure out that the noise you heard was your engine lunching itself, the engine will have turned 166 revolutions, or enough for it to clout each valve at least 40 times. And that's if you're expecting it and quick to react!

Just get it done if it's due!

Ratchet

1.3/1.5 engine

up to 99' every 40.000 miles or every 4 years
from 00' every 50.000 miles or every 5 years

Guy:Incognito

What sort of intervals would it be for a 2.0 Accord (94) Mines at 83k, not sure if/when it was done as I only bought it a few weeks back.

Ratchet

accord 2.0

from 93 up to =>07/98' every 60000 or every 5years

big daddu

hI Could any one tell me when to change timeing belt on a 06 1.6 hyundai elantra petrol i bought this car last weekend 130000klm some say 65000 miles our 100klm dont know has it being done our not as seller didnt know was it done our not

bazz26

Holy 9 year old zombie thread Batman!

JustAddWater

big daddu wrote: »

hI Could any one tell me when to change timeing belt on a 06 1.6 hyundai elantra petrol i bought this car last weekend 130000klm some say 65000 miles our 100klm dont know has it being done our not as seller didnt know was it done our not

As someone once said 9 years ago...

DukeDredd wrote: »

And if in any doubt about when it was last done get it changed...

Guy:Incognito

I never did do that belt in the end :-)

biko

big daddu wrote: »

hI Could any one tell me when to change timeing belt on a 06 1.6 hyundai elantra petrol i bought this car last weekend 130000klm some say 65000 miles our 100klm dont know has it being done our not as seller didnt know was it done our not

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