Re: Help! Dealer woes . . .

[esw5@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (Ernest Wong)]

>> not damaged anything. If they had put the belt back on wrong, i.e.,
>> if the timing was off a couple of teeth, then the car wouldn't run the
>> same and you run the danger of having the pistons hit the valves.
>
>I thought Audi's were non-interference -- valves and pistons can't collide,
>even with a broken timing belt.  Anyone know for sure?
>
>
>> Zafer
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>walter
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>Walter Meares           Intermetrics, Inc.      walter@inmet.inmet.com
>Information Systems     733 Concord Ave         Cambridge MA 02138
>(617) 661-1840

Dealer told me the 2.2 inline 5 in the 87 was interfering. Major damage if
timing belt goes. But that is what the dealer said. I'd like to err on the
safe side.
Ernest Wong
esw5@cornell.edu