timing belt - mileage or years

[Brett Dikeman]

At 10:07 PM -0500 1/22/02, Kent McLean wrote:
>I'm looking at a '90 Audi V8 that had it's timing
>belt changed 40K miles ago -- but that was in 1995.
>Is it good for another 20K miles? Or should I change
>it because of its age (going on 7 years)?

Search the archives for Phil's post about Michele Mouton blowing up
the Sport Q.

"Michele sport goodwood festival" for a search phrase should do the trick.

In it(or elsewhere in the thread) he mentions the interval in
years(at least for a sport q.)  I believe the belt had 9 years on it,
and that was way overdue when it snapped?

B
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