cambelt help please
11 February 2010, 04:56 PM
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cambelt help please
hi there fellow scooby owners i reacently brought a subaru impreza wrx turbo 
on a 2000 plate with 27000 miles on the clock and just wondering when cambelts are due on these in the service history it says 1 was done at 8000 miles please can any 1 help ?
cheers martin
on a 2000 plate with 27000 miles on the clock and just wondering when cambelts are due on these in the service history it says 1 was done at 8000 miles please can any 1 help ?cheers martin
11 February 2010, 05:23 PM
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i was speaking to someone and they was saying every 3 years or 40k whatever comes first do you think it would be worth getting it done or will it be a waste of time ?
11 February 2010, 10:41 PM
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If you have got the money and the time i would do it for sure as a cambelt change is alot cheaper than a re-build when the cambelt snaps because you didnt have it changed..
11 February 2010, 10:54 PM
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In 8 years of working on Imprezas, I've never known of a cambelt to 'just snap' (yet 
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Plenty of water pump, tensioner or idler failiures though.
)Plenty of water pump, tensioner or idler failiures though.
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11 February 2010, 10:59 PM
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get that belt changed
11 February 2010, 11:02 PM
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Ah yeah im nt saying it would but there is always the chance and like i said the price of a belt compared to a re-build i know which i would reather pay for..
12 February 2010, 02:39 PM
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cheers every 1 how much roughly do you think it will cost me ?just that i just brought the car so bit skint for the next couple of months also where could any1 recomend somewhere i can have it done im based it epsom surrey
12 February 2010, 02:40 PM
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12 February 2010, 05:15 PM
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12 February 2010, 08:44 PM
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The belt on it would have been changed at 4 years, in this case 8,000 miles.
The current belt has done 19,000 miles and 6 years. The belt should be fine - but, it would cost £150 all in to get done ... the tensioner and idlers should be fine at that mileage.
In the USA the belts have to last for 100,000 miles by law.
Up to you if you change or not, it's very unlikely to snap any time soon. As said above, Subaru belt snaps are very rare ..... for yours to snap would be even rarer!
The current belt has done 19,000 miles and 6 years. The belt should be fine - but, it would cost £150 all in to get done ... the tensioner and idlers should be fine at that mileage.
In the USA the belts have to last for 100,000 miles by law.
Up to you if you change or not, it's very unlikely to snap any time soon. As said above, Subaru belt snaps are very rare ..... for yours to snap would be even rarer!
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