cambelt change?

reduceditem

mikey72 wrote: »

Just to save a few hundred pounds? On a car that could then last another 5 years at least?
If you don't do it, it's not worth the hassle when it breaks on the way to work, then you have to get it recovered, then sort out a new car quickly, so you can't wait for a bargain, then sort out getting the old car sold or scrapped.
That'll cost more.

It would very likely last another five years without changing the belt.

The odds are in favour of not changing and keeping the money in your pocket.

Remember, I'm only suggesting this for cars worth around 2k or less.

mikey72

reduceditem wrote: »

It would very likely last another five years without changing the belt.

The odds are in favour of not changing and keeping the money in your pocket.

Remember, I'm only suggesting this for cars worth around 2k or less.

We've got a £500 second car on 130000 miles I've just had a cam belt on. It does 80 mile a day round trip, to work and back, on the motorway.
The amount of aggravation if that went wouldn't be worth the £300 we'd save.

reduceditem

mikey72 wrote: »

We've got a £500 second car on 130000 miles I've just had a cam belt on. It does 80 mile a day round trip, to work and back, on the motorway.
The amount of aggravation if that went wouldn't be worth the £300 we'd save.

I understand where you're coming from........it's just that snapped cambelts are a rarity and I'm personally unconvinced about the cost/benefit ratio.

kingstreet

I've just replied in another cambelt thread and have to reiterate the importance of the pulleys/tensioners being replaced too.

I had a tensioner go on a Saab I bought a few months earlier which was sold as cambelt having been changed within manufacturer guidelines. Fortunately, the belt carried on running true, so no valve damage. It still cost a few quid to put right.

I've always gone for precautionary water pump changes too, if for no other reason than it's a cheap part to replace, normally with a high labour cost. If you can avoid that at a later date, it's a well spent £50.

Flying-High_2

TiTheRev wrote: »

Vauxhall have an approx 25% market share of all new cars, so instantly they have over half a million cars added to the system as new cars each year, VW (at the moment) are at under 200,000. Less cars on the road = less parts need supplying.

I'm not talking about just Volkswagen though... I'm including all the VAG platforms... Audi Seat Skoda and VW all sharing same parts and more same part numbers... UK Sales last year from what I've just read with them 4 added up equals roughly that of Vauxhall... So I still reckon its cobblers;)

Edited as missed this bit.....

Last 4/5 years?...Only just needed cambelts.... So what about the 110TDi engine slung in everything from around 99onwards or the 20V 1.8T motor? fitted in everythinga across the board... Then the PD TDis fitted in all and sundry...

TiTheRev

Flying-High wrote: »

I'm not talking about just Volkswagen though... I'm including all the VAG platforms... Audi Seat Skoda and VW all sharing same parts and more same part numbers... UK Sales last year from what I've just read with them 4 added up equals roughly that of Vauxhall... So I still reckon its cobblers;)

Edited as missed this bit.....

Last 4/5 years?...Only just needed cambelts.... So what about the 110TDi engine slung in everything from around 99onwards or the 20V 1.8T motor? fitted in everythinga across the board... Then the PD TDis fitted in all and sundry...

VW have an approx 8% market share, Audi only 6%, Seat & Skoda are nearer 1/2%, so over all you are looking at 15% compared to 25%.

The engines you've mentioned may all be 'similar', but the cambelts fitted to them do differ depending on age. The 110bhp TDi was only used for a couple of years, and was origionally a 105bhp, then a 115bhp which had different setups. The 1.8T had a chassis break during 2001 and was different cambelt kits either side. The PD TDi's similarly were different outputs, ranging from 110 to 170, with 115/130 and 150bhp in between.

So there :rotfl:

Flying-High_2

So where is the 25% from?... Any website showing these figures?

I know they differ from year to year but what I'm saying is that they were used across the whole different platforms....most of the time

I know about the PD outputs... And the 110yes was short lived but found across all the platforms....We're talking about shared parts...

TiTheRev

The figures were supplied by VW on our intranet last month, but not sure where they were obtained from. Their aim is to achieve 12% share by 2013 and they are getting very hot on it, so we are bombarded with updates!

Flying-High_2

2010 UK Figures below... Should Imagaine they wont be jackanory

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/UK-2010-car-sales-analysis-winners-and-losers/

Easy to find month by month from Jan 2011 backwards aswell......

TiTheRev

Flying-High wrote: »

2010 UK Figures below... Should Imagaine they wont be jackanory

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/UK-2010-car-sales-analysis-winners-and-losers/

Easy to find month by month from Jan 2011 backwards aswell......

So all the VAG stats were correct, but the Vauxhall one is 12%? Wonder how they got that figure then?

Edit ~ having just re-read it, it they are quoting Ford/Vauxhall as the largest market share, which equates to the 25% combined.