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Old 07-07-2003, 05:59 AM
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Default Confused on timing belt maintenance intervals. Is it the sooner of 60K miles or 5 yrs? I've got

50K miles on a 98.5 that was delivered in Sept '98 so I'm thinking it may be time to change even though I won't hit 60K miles until probably next spring. Can't find any mention of the five years in the owners manual but a Search here mentioned it. Dealer's attitude was that if you're worried, change it. BTW, it's been chipped and K04's since around 25K miles.
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Default you're going to have to change it eventually..why not do it now

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Exactly.
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*agree with chip*
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Prolly right. Comes in threes and I need an altenator and CV boots so hopefully that's it for now.
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Default Second on chip! Mine is a 96, the milage is only 60K per now. If i had followed (m)

the vehicle maintenance recomendation to change it at 90K, under my current milage per year condition, i am going to have the tbelt job done in mmmmhh around year of 2007.
Does it sounds right? I dont know..

But for a piece of mind, i change it last month
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