[V8] Bought 1993 Audi V8

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Tony and Lillie tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net
Sun May 29 20:03:34 PDT 2011

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And for that matter, I won't go over 60k on any of mine, no matter  
what the
recommendation is. I've rebuilt about ten 1.8T heads from belts  
going, and
only one was over the 105K recomended interval. The lowest was 72k,  
and no,
the factory didn't cover it. These are mostly due to the tensioner  
itself
going bad, but nonetheless, I won't take the chance. a 1.8T head rebuild
with TB service runs about $2k, too high for my pocketbook ;-)

Like my parts car, someone put a new $40 belt on it, but didn't care  
to mess with the tensioner/idlers/waterpump.......It's a bomb waiting  
to happen.....Tom