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Title: timing belt
Post by: flyer 0712 on 10 November 2011, 18:17:21
hi  all  my brother in law has a 1999 v..w..polo  1400cc    mileage 31000 from new....does anyone know at what mileage does the timing belt have to be changed or has it got a timing chain.....aint got a clue....thanks     yar244...ray... :y :y
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: dbug on 10 November 2011, 18:19:21
hi  all  my brother in law has a 1999 v..w..polo  1400cc    mileage 31000 from new....does anyone know at what mileage does the timing belt have to be changed or has it got a timing chain.....aint got a clue....thanks     yar244...ray... :y :y

 :o :o
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: flyer 0712 on 10 November 2011, 18:26:06
yes it is  a 1999  and  31000  miles  honestly he has had it from new he is 76 years old and does not do a lot of driving..... :D :y
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: dbug on 10 November 2011, 20:47:48
yes it is  a 1999  and  31000  miles  honestly he has had it from new he is 76 years old and does not do a lot of driving..... :D :y
2½ K per year - amazing.
Cambelt interval is, i think, 60K or 5 years
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: spud1990 on 10 November 2011, 21:28:23
iv just got my hands on a v reg 1,4 lupo and that only got a lil over 16k  :y :y
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: aaronjb on 10 November 2011, 21:33:44
yes it is  a 1999  and  31000  miles  honestly he has had it from new he is 76 years old and does not do a lot of driving..... :D :y
2½ K per year - amazing.
Cambelt interval is, i think, 60K or 5 years

Only 7 years overdue, then!
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: Nick W on 10 November 2011, 23:20:39
yes it is  a 1999  and  31000  miles  honestly he has had it from new he is 76 years old and does not do a lot of driving..... :D :y

My sister's 1970 Morris 1300 has 36,000 miles on it, and she's done half of those in the last 4 years! Although it was legal when she bought it(I drove it home), it needed a fair amount of recomissioning. It needed new master cylinders, a new clutch slave, four new tyres, a new speedo cable and a new clutch as the old one was sticky - something I'd not seen before. None of that is expensive though, and it's a good little car.
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: flyer 0712 on 11 November 2011, 10:14:16
thanks to all the replys..just goes to show that there are old low mileage cars out there....driven by old men  :D  ( sorry brother in law ) :D :y
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: henryd on 11 November 2011, 11:30:38
yes it is  a 1999  and  31000  miles  honestly he has had it from new he is 76 years old and does not do a lot of driving..... :D :y

My sister's 1970 Morris 1300 has 36,000 miles on it, and she's done half of those in the last 4 years! Although it was legal when she bought it(I drove it home), it needed a fair amount of recomissioning. It needed new master cylinders, a new clutch slave, four new tyres, a new speedo cable and a new clutch as the old one was sticky - something I'd not seen before. None of that is expensive though, and it's a good little car.

My first car was a 1963 morris 1100,seems like a long time ago now(1976) :y :y
Title: Re: timing belt
Post by: aaronjb on 11 November 2011, 11:36:50
My first car was a 1963 morris 1100,seems like a long time ago now(1976) :y :y

That is a long time ago... I wasn't even born then.. *ducks* ;D