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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: der_kaiser on 20 June 2012, 12:59

Title: Cambelt
Post by: der_kaiser on 20 June 2012, 12:59
Hi everyone a quick question with regards to cambelt changing. My girlfriend currently is trying to sell her 1.4 and she seems to think that the cambelt on the mark v doesn't require changing until the light comes on! Seems a bit strange to me but apparently her garage are adamant this is the case. Her car has done 90k I would have thought it's over due regardless of her advice but I would appreciate the advice of the mark V crowd! When should a cambelt change take place on a mark v in this case a petrol 1.4? It's a 2005.
Title: Re: Cambelt
Post by: Gene Hunt. on 20 June 2012, 20:16
Hi everyone a quick question with regards to cambelt changing. My girlfriend currently is trying to sell her 1.4 and she seems to think that the cambelt on the mark v doesn't require changing until the light comes on! Seems a bit strange to me but apparently her garage are adamant this is the case. Her car has done 90k I would have thought it's over due regardless of her advice but I would appreciate of the mark V crowd! When should a cambelt change take place on a mark v in this case a petrol 1.4? It's a 2005.

..............the garage is wrong!!!!!!!!.No warning light for the cambelt. On the GTI it's 4 years or 60,000. Not shure about the 1.4 but either way i would be looking at another garage if thats the info they are giving out. :shocked:
Title: Re: Cambelt
Post by: AlanD on 21 June 2012, 10:18
Just echoing what Gene Hunt has said really. At 90k the cambelt needs doing, you'll struggle to find a buyer for a car thats done 90k with no cambelt done.

Also don't bother with that garage, no idea what planet they are on. Get it done asap and all the best with the sale of the car.
Title: Re: Cambelt
Post by: jimojameso on 21 June 2012, 11:37
Get that cambelt done tommorow before it snaps!!!
Title: Re: Cambelt
Post by: der_kaiser on 21 June 2012, 12:58
That's what I thought I've never heard of a light for a cambelt.
Title: Re: Cambelt
Post by: Gene Hunt. on 21 June 2012, 19:29
That's what I thought I've never heard of a light for a cambelt.
...........maybe the garage is going on about when the belt snaps & all the warning lights come on cause the engine is f**ked. :grin: :smug: