Which cars got a chain cam?

TadleyBaggie

blacksta wrote: »

Ford ka - runs forever

...or until the rust renders the rest of the car undriveable.

pitkin2020

andygb wrote: »

Most manufacturers have now gone over to 3 year/36K mile cam belt intervals.
The Mazda 3/6 petrol engines use cam chains.
In the old days cam chains used to last upwards of 200K miles, if they got noisy, then a tensioner change normally cured it. Nowadays however, I have heard of cam chain failures in small/medium Vauxhalls (Agila for instance) as low as 40K miles.

Its uncommon though for a chain failure to occur usually a tensioner is at fault and can be fixed very easily, if a belt snaps it can be very expensive to fix.

Cam chains usually need very little attention and usually outlive the car (in most cases) where as belts need to be changed regularly and a lot of manufacturers have halved the mileage between changes in recent years some need to be changed every 40k on average.

bryanb

Hyundai use chains but I believe they recommend changing the chain about 60k

poppasmurf_bewdley

Aletank wrote: »

Most if not all BMW & Mercedes, Some Mondeo Diesels, that's all i know of the top of my head.

My old Mk 3 Mondeo 2 litre TDCi had a chain cambelt, but my Mk4 Mondeo 2 litre TDCi has a rubber cambelt. It's supposed to be called progress!

cddc

All Saab Petrol engines.......

BlastRedeye

Honda K series engines have chains instead of belts.

So 7th Gen type-s and type-r (ev1 + ep3)

getmore4less

VAG group petrols I think most are now chain. not sure on the diesels

rev_henry

blacksta wrote: »

Ford ka - runs forever

The old ones are pushrod.

pendulum

Some Nissan Micras and quite a few Nissans

fivetide

vax2002 wrote: »

Would you buy a cycle that used a rubber belt to drive the wheels ?

You can buy a motorbike that does. Harley Davidson have had them for years.

http://www.harleycustom.com/Cat-Open_Belt_Drive_primary-16.html

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