At what mileage should the timing belt be replaced in this car? Just rolled over 60,000 miles last week. Doesnt say (that I can find) anything about it in the owners manual. Used 90% for highway driving, in excellent shape. Thanks
Peace Deke
At what mileage should the timing belt be replaced in this car? Just rolled over 60,000 miles last week. Doesnt say (that I can find) anything about it in the owners manual. Used 90% for highway driving, in excellent shape. Thanks
Peace Deke
You're about due now. If it breaks, the car will stop but the engine will not be trashed.
DS
Generally you want to replace a timing belt between 50-80K miles. Since you do a lot of Highway driving it would be a good idea to replace it now since those 4 cyl engines(assuming it is a 4 cyl) run a little fast on the highway. Nothing is worse than a broke timing belt!
Good Luck! Nick
Deke wrote:
50K is wastefully early.
We're talking about a '92 Shadow. I can think of a great many failures worse than a broken timing belt on a '92 Shadow, which has a non-interference engine.
DS
Thanks for all the replies. First of next month I'll see about getting it replaced.
Peace Deke
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