205 Timing Belt

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The way to 'know' is based on miles travelled (not many in your case) or time (at least 4 years in your case). As it's been more than 4 years and you are not exactly certain.... change it. The cost of it snapping is far more than replacing the belt... If the belt does snap when you are driving you cause or be involved in an accident, just not worth it for the cost of a timing belt.

N.

Thanks Neil, I wouldn't know how to change the belt myself, so I would be given it to a garage to do the work. Have you any idea how much this would cost including the cost of the Timing-Belt? I don't want to be robed as I don't have a clue what a garage would charge for this type of job? ===========

what engine mate?

it will take a good mechanic about an hour to fit it its the easy one of the bunch best way is to buy the belt from europarts or gsf parts and use a local guy to fit it heres the links for the parts

I?ve just been quoted £75 by an independant peugeot specialist for my

You should always get the belt replaced if you don?t know how old it is. If it breaks it can be really expensive (>£500) to fix everything.

Hi,

Yup, perhaps two.

Sure, you even don't have to remove the right-front wheel to do it. BTW, don't forget the tensionner. My belt should be changed by July, damn' it's a XUD :-)

Regards, G.T snipped-for-privacy@worldonline.fr

and about an hour on your easy little engine too was last time i did one and it was the turbo

Could you teach my mechanic how to do it? :D Because I?ve only ever been quoted 2 hours on my XUD7. In fact I?m normally quoted about £140 on the job which is presumably for hours and hours of work :( , £75 is the best I?ve ever been offered.

Hi,

I'm not that fast ! One hour, not enough time to replace the tensionner ? Two hours including tensionner isn't a so bad time I think.

Regards, G.T snipped-for-privacy@worldonline.fr

depends how many you have done i suppose did one on a laguna diesel yesterday and that took me 2hours cos i aint done many another half dozen and the time will come down