[A4] Changing Timing Belt / Brake pads at 80,000 miles

[Simon McCartney]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:54:20PM +0000, Venkat Venkataratnam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The dealer tells me that the timing belt needs to be changed ($1300) and so 
> do the brake pads ($500). Is it good practice to change these for my 98 A4 
> 2.8 Quattro that has 80,000 miles on it.
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

He's right, but he's also very expensive!  I paid £200 for a timing belt at
good non-Audi engineer.

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