Harper "I FEEL SO GOOD I FEEL SO NUMB, YEAH!!!" Messages 6,947 Location Australia Dec 22, 2009 #21 aliasaid said: lotta opel drivers here... i have an opel too!!!! Opel Astra 1.8L 16V, just like the ones pictured but its a 4 door. Click to expand... How often are you changing your timing belt?
aliasaid said: lotta opel drivers here... i have an opel too!!!! Opel Astra 1.8L 16V, just like the ones pictured but its a 4 door. Click to expand... How often are you changing your timing belt?
Harper "I FEEL SO GOOD I FEEL SO NUMB, YEAH!!!" Messages 6,947 Location Australia Dec 23, 2009 #23 aliasaid said: every 40,000KM Click to expand... OUCH! I would be changing my timing belt just about every year with your model. I can 60 000km on Astra.
aliasaid said: every 40,000KM Click to expand... OUCH! I would be changing my timing belt just about every year with your model. I can 60 000km on Astra.
philbar71 Fully Optimized Messages 4,533 Location Suffolk, VA Dec 23, 2009 #24 Keyboard Cowboy said: How often are you changing your timing belt? Click to expand... Timing belts? Lol wut, no timing chain?
Keyboard Cowboy said: How often are you changing your timing belt? Click to expand... Timing belts? Lol wut, no timing chain?
aliasaid Fully Optimized Messages 2,400 Dec 23, 2009 #25 Keyboard Cowboy said: OUCH! I would be changing my timing belt just about every year with your model. I can 60 000km on Astra. Click to expand... what? are you saying i should change it every 60,000KM? philbar71 said: Timing belts? Lol wut, no timing chain? Click to expand... unfortunately not I thought they only did that with really old cars... as far as i know, most new cars have rubber belts!
Keyboard Cowboy said: OUCH! I would be changing my timing belt just about every year with your model. I can 60 000km on Astra. Click to expand... what? are you saying i should change it every 60,000KM? philbar71 said: Timing belts? Lol wut, no timing chain? Click to expand... unfortunately not I thought they only did that with really old cars... as far as i know, most new cars have rubber belts!
Trotter Grandfather of Techist, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Staff member Messages 33,560 Location The South Dec 23, 2009 #26 My '93 Escort has a timing belt on it.
philbar71 Fully Optimized Messages 4,533 Location Suffolk, VA Dec 25, 2009 #27 Hmm, my old silverado 2500 had a timing chain on it. But that was a '97. I thought most cars made after 1990 had a chain.
Hmm, my old silverado 2500 had a timing chain on it. But that was a '97. I thought most cars made after 1990 had a chain.
Trotter Grandfather of Techist, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Staff member Messages 33,560 Location The South Dec 25, 2009 #28 Small motors went to belts pretty early.