Type 44 Timing Belt Change Intervals

[Robert Myers]

And... (drum roll please, Maestro) 60 K miles is 96K kM.  IOW, 100K kM.

At 05:05 PM 5/7/01 -0400, Kneale Brownson wrote:

>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?
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>At 04:12 PM 05/07/2001 -0400, Dave Marshall wrote:
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>>Hi All
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>>What have you type 44 owners been doing as far as timing belt changes are
>>concerned?
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>>I have record that my 1987 5000CD Quattro Avant had the belt changed at
>>192,000 km and it now has 293,000 km.
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>>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."
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>>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.
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>>Any thoughts are appreciated.
>>
>>Dave Marshall
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