Date:         Fri, 8 May 2009 19:19:01 -0400
Reply-To:     pdooley <psdooley@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         pdooley <psdooley@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: [NVC] Passat Timing Belt Replacement
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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One more reason to not own a Porsche.
$141 for a $30 part.

My bro has a 928, he says parts cost 4-5 times what a normal car part costs.


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Don Hanson
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:13 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: [NVC] Passat Timing Belt Replacement

The timing belt in my vanagon (1.8 liter inline four VW ) looks more like a
garter belt...It is quite whispy...tiny even...When I first got in there,
doing some stuff to the alternator belt, I thought the timing belt was a
power steering or a fan of some sort..
Very unlike the huge long fat serpentine one on my 4-cam V8 water cooled
Porsche..the one .that broke and cost me 31 bent valves @ $141 per valve...
  Don Hanson

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:41 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> Come on now, I have 5 Vanagons with timing belts and 4 of those came
> with them from the factory.
>
> Mark
>
>
> David Kao wrote:
>
>> My 2001 Passat V6 reached 100K miles a few months ago. I had worried
>> that the timing belt needed replacement and needed to be done soon
>> as the warranty had run out.
>> ..........
>> I am glad that Vanagons (Vanagon content) do not use a timing belt.
>>
>> David
>>
>>