Type 44 Timing Belt Change Intervals

[Kneale Brownson]

I thought 60K MILES was the consensus.  Audi originally recommended 90K, 
but then moved to the lower figure because of having to pay for repairing a 
few engines or something like that?


At 04:12 PM 05/07/2001 -0400, Dave Marshall wrote:

>Hi All
>
>What have you type 44 owners been doing as far as timing belt changes are
>concerned?
>
>I have record that my 1987 5000CD Quattro Avant had the belt changed at
>192,000 km and it now has 293,000 km.
>
>My Audi dealer, good people, just shrug when I ask what is a good rule of
>thumb for mileage between changes.  "Yea 100,000 km or more is a good time.
>Whenever you want."
>
>I understand that this is an interference engine and also see that many have
>talked about changing their timing belts much sooner than 100,000 km
>  60,000 miles).  Some much longer.
>
>Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
>Dave Marshall
>
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