1.8T timing belt

[Jon]

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:02:21 -0700, Michael McLaughlin <mcloffs at mac.com> wrote:
 
> While this mechanic has been very good to me in the past, I'm still a bit nervous 
> about not doing the timing belt now. What thoughts do you have?

I believe it to be a crap shoot. Are you a gambling man?  I think
there has still been failures before 75k with the updated belt, then I
have read stories about people with older MY cars that let it go to
100k without a failure.

I have 56k miles on my 2001 1.8t and I have already had mine changed. 
My situation was a little different, though.  Under warranty they had
the engine torn apart to replace my camshaft sensor and I had them
change it while they were in there and it saved me some money.

Those are my thoughts.