Well after being slated on here and I wasn't giving advice just stating how long my belt had been on I got I touch with James and he came yesterday in the pouring rain and changed my belt it wasn't in bad condition but needed doing had started to get lose and the timing was slightly out he also did my cam covers only prob he found was a leak from the water pump that had been changed by Vauxhall couple years ago but it wasn't the pump it was the mounting bolts being hand tight once he tightened them it stopped the leak I do not or have ever condoned leaving the belt over the manufactured limits but as my car had been serviced and moted by the same dealer from new with full history I wrongly assumed it had been done as the car had only done 61,000 miles so buyer beware and don't assume it's been done the car is now running a lot better and I'll be keeping it for a few years yet
Belt condition is irrelevant, they don't snap. It's the tensioners that fail, causing slippage. A belt at 40k will look almost identical to a brand spankers, so going on it's visual condition is not important.
Just a helpful pointer here, try to use some punctuation. Reading an entire block of text like that, without a single full stop or comma, is very hard work!
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