timing belt question

[Phil Payne]

> Yours was a Conti belt, and because of that sneaky ingeniousity, you
are
> fine to go more than 100K miles between change.

Conti (Continentale Gummiwerke AG, Königswörtherplatz 1, Hannover) was
a customer of mine for many years.  I lived about ten miles away and
frequently went in for lunch.  The guys there told me a story:

It seems that, one lunchtime at exactly 11:55 a certain man went
upstairs to the canteen on the top floor of the 'Hochhaus', as he did
every day.  One wall of the canteen was a huge, deep serving counter.
The meal of the day (there is no menu) was 'Erbsensuppe mit Einlage'.
This is thick pea soup with a Bockwurst pushed through it such that
the two ends of the sausage poke out of the soup.  I've eaten it -
both soup and sausage taste the same.  This chap greeted his
colleagues with the usual bark of "Mahlzeit!" and a handshake each (I
used to get my hand shaken fifty or so times during a lunchtime visit)
and put his jacket over a chair.  Then he went to get a plate of soup.
He returned to his table, put the plate down, got his cigarettes and
lighter out, and went over to the window.  Smoking was forbidden.  He
lit up a cigarette and without a word to anyone, opened the window and
stepped out, nine floors up.

Conti make some fantastic products besides tyres and timing belts.
Lifting bags for Jumbo jets, condoms for animals, you name it.

But _I_ would trust _anyone's_ belt beyond 60k miles, and I usually
find an excuse to change them before that.

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