Workvan is 96 Hiace 2.8, done 265 000km so far on original belt. Boss been reminded many times,, not done nothin about it. Always had good oil/filters etc,, just not a timing belt!
hondalova,
Mar 12, 8:21am
old neighbours 1992 honda city 1litre had about 350,000 on origonal belt. she got it changed after wof person said something about it.
desmodave,
Mar 12, 8:34am
Life is cheap.How many air bags in a 96 Hiace .
tmenz,
Mar 12, 9:10am
Does it have a belt! My '95 Hiace 2.4 petrol has a chain.
franc123,
Mar 12, 9:16am
2.8 is the 3L diesel, which does indeed have a belt.
pollymay,
Mar 12, 10:07am
We had a honda that stripped it at 130,000 and bent all the valves. It had been on there about 15 years though.
nzfatie,
Mar 12, 10:58am
SOHC engines are much easier on cambelts from having one camshaft dragging and a large cam sprocket contact area, while DOHC engines have 2 camshafts dragging and a small cam sprocket contact area, making the the belt more likely to strip or break as it gets older.
for_an_angel,
Mar 12, 9:48pm
What about the fact the belt has to go round the very small crank sprocket with the same load on both single and twin cam engines!
phillip.weston,
Mar 12, 10:38pm
Not quite. One would argue that the force required to turn the one single cam would be twice the force required to turn each individual cam on a twin cam engine. On the twin cams, the cambelt tends to go around the sprocket more than half of the surface area that the cambelt would go around the sprocket on a single cam engine. Couple that with the fact that some twin cam engines have wider cambelts over their single cam counterparts.
elect70,
Mar 13, 2:35am
Mk 32 LGT cortinabought it for running gear to put in escort , still had FOMOCO belt on it& done 230k miles . it was perished As soon as i tried to turn it over the teeth stripped off. gave it a rebuild .
mottly,
Mar 13, 2:37am
met a guy at the petrol station with a camry, had 365,000km and had never changed the cambelt!
autocars1,
Mar 13, 5:18am
I saw a Toyota Landcruise do 400k on the same belt. It's all crap this cambelt scaremungering. it's a service racket that sucks in heaps of people.
pollymay,
Mar 13, 5:47am
Serious! You have obviously never lunched a motor because of it
mugenb20b,
Mar 13, 5:55am
God, what a load of BS!
mugenb20b,
Mar 13, 5:57am
Really! Have a look at Subaru's quad cam engine's cambelt, see how long and wide the damn thing is. Then compare it to say Citroen's SOHC engine, see how skinny and tiny they are.
vr4_legnum,
Mar 13, 6:15am
My stagea with rb25de has done just over 135,000kms on the same belt
johnf_456,
Mar 13, 6:21am
Utter BS
bjdw,
Mar 13, 6:24am
Don't RB's have chains!
trogedon,
Mar 13, 6:30am
No. RB stands for Rubber Belt
tgray,
Mar 13, 6:33am
Anyone who tells you that your 2006 corolla needs the belt changed with 80k's on the clock, it full of BS.
bjdw,
Mar 13, 6:42am
SR - So Reliable GA - Great Automobile TD - Takes Diesel
mugenb20b,
Mar 13, 6:51am
The Citroen I was thinking of was the little AX, and I think Peugeot used the same engine in its 106. Both cars are pretty good run abouts. I didn't actually know they needed their cambelts replacing every 60k or 3 years. I was just a bit surprised to see how small the cambelts were compared to say Mitsubishi's 4G13.
ashwattau,
Mar 13, 7:06am
Nah that is just what Haynes specify for the XU5/XU9 motors. Which is meant to be aligned with what the manufacturer says. I think we must be talking about different motors. For the one I'm talking about, I (think) the belts are made by Gates!
franc123,
Mar 13, 7:22am
Oh you are funny.Try explaining that to people that own Opel and Audi/VW product and have had belt failures far before 100K comes up due to the short life of the factory belts, and had up to 20 valves bent.While the life of timing belts does vary a lot exceeding recommended margins by a significant amount is foolhardly, especially on interference motors.Your comment sounds incredibly ignorant in a used car salesman sort of a way, you're not by any chance are you!
johnf_456,
Mar 13, 7:25am
Its simply not worth the risk if you don't like the idea of replacing it get a chain engine especially on some euro's with low cambelt change intervals. The damage caused by a belt breaking with your car been off the road for a long time is not worth it and not to mention your wallet.
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