Hi All, and happy Fathers Day!! I am looking at a 2000 V6 Eclipse it has 43000 on it and I was wondering what the change interval is for the timing belt (in time and or miles) as the car is low milage, it still may be time to change the belt because of time. They are asking $10,990.00 and told me "we are not in love with it" so they are willing to negotiate, I figured I'd offer between 8300 (low side) to 8900 (high side) it needs rubber on the back (front are brand new) and probably a timing belt, and if they are like my Nissans, then you do the water pump while you are in there too. Next question is how hard is the timing belt for a shade tree mechanic to do? i do a lot of work on my own cars because it seems every time I pay someone else to do it the car comes back with another problem created by the mechanics!! I am not new to wrench turning, just getting tired of it at nearly 50 years old, if I could find a good mech. for reasonable money, I'd rather pay than do it myself. Some of these car mechs. get more than I do for setting up complex networks, and computer service, but that's OK as long as I can do what I know how to do (in the A/C...not in my HOT garage)..........Opinions Please, all info will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John
2000 V6 Eclipse (should I buy or not??) and timing belt.
Jun 19, 2005
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I've got an 84 Nissan 200sx, just tripped over 90k. Tell me about timing belts, because I'm concerned. Also, have you had a bad experience with water pumps?
My gf has the 4 cyl 2001 Eclipse. The FSM covers both - and I'm pretty sure the answer is 60k, or 100k in california. Since the timing belt doesn't do less work in California, I think 100k is a same time to change for anyone unless they beat on the car. I'm still not sure why there are two recommendations, but I'm using it as an excuse for the fact her car is at 90k now and I intended to do it at 60k.
The 'timing belt' job, as near as I can tell, should be a new timing belt, balance shaft belt, timing belt tensioner, and optionally the water pump and balance shaft tensioner. I have the parts in the garage, waiting for my RX-7 work to get done so I can finally take care of it. I know garage mechanics have done these jobs, but there isn't much that I found. What info I did find I got from
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Dave
On the water pump, it is just something that you do when doing a timing belt as you are already in there and it is not an expensive part, but would be a costly repair if you had to do it from scratch, as the labor is high to tear it down to put it in, when it is torn down for a belt it's about 40 to
80 bucks for the part, so might as well do it while you are in there. If you are past the timing belt interval, better go ahead and do it especially if your engine is an "interference" engine, meaning the valves will hit the piston tops if the valve train quits moving!Join the Discussion
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