Ahhh... well my experience is that the belt begins to shred and for a few hundred miles you can hear it swatting the cover, that is the alarm. Course you have to be real sensitive to hear it. Rachel http://www.gnarlodious.com Entity Milo spoke thus:
>> YOU CANNOT TELL THE BELT'S HEALTH BY LOOKING AT IT. >> >> One moment it looks fine, the next it's broken! > > Well, yes and no. Granted, a belt can look fine and not be. But a belt > can also look like hell, a very good sign that it's not fine. A few years > ago, > the Rabbit diesel I was driving had about 60K since the timing belt had been > changed (the belt was about 3 years old) - popped the timing belt cover off > to look at it, and you could see cracks on the inside of the belt. This > visual inspection just reinforced what I was already gonna do - change the |
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