lads

anyone ever have a timing belt break on them....does it cause major damage to the engine......i've heard with some cars when the belt goes the engine just stops......replace the belt and your back in business...is this the case with the 323f

my 1.5 has 120000 on her....i know shes overdue...don't have the cash at the minute.....she was done at 54000.....

i think i've heard somebody say that it does just stop on the BA, i changed mine not long ago, its not too difficult, as long as you can make a special tool to take off a certain bit, doing it yourself saves you a lot of dollar

From what I've heard if it goes you can knacker your whole engine... Am I right in thinking the timing belt is the cam belt?

You are indeed

The tensioner on My V6 went and I drove it 30 or 40 miles to the dealers, sounded awful but ... its still running fine now ... I would suggest you get it replaced asap though, just in case

yeah definately, don't just rely on it being alright

thanks lads.....must go out busking over the festive season so!!!

lads...just got a quote from mazda for the job....

[quote]That would cost about €240.00 approx. If tensioner and idler were required you would be talking about €200 on top of that.[/quote]

in sterling thats £164 for the job and maybe another £136 after that.......when the belt is done do you usually have to get the tensioner and idler changed aswell???.....milage is 116,000

[color=blue]I believe the "V" engines (1.8, 2.0, 2.5) are all "non interference" engines, whereby if the belt does snap the engine will not be harmed, just replace belt and away you go, wouldn't like to try out that though...........

As for the inline engines, I would say if it does break, say goodbye to your valves, pistons etc etc....

My last car (Mitsubishi Galant) had a knackered tensioner, would sound terrible, a really weird buzzing noise with occasional clonks (which later found to be the belt jumping - but not off the teeth of the cam shaft) took it to dealer - who then said its a trait with the engine, left it for a few weeks but took it back as I thought no way is it supposed to sound like this, so I demanded a service engineer come out and listen to it, in about 2 seconds he said don't drive it, the tensioner is shagged, snag was I was about 10 miles from home, drove like a pensioner on the way back!!
Luckily car was still under warranty so all got fixed.....[/color]

The 1.8 in the BA is not a 'V' engine.
however, see the thread below for a story of a snapped cambelt/timing belt (same difference) on a 1.8

http://www.club323f.com/club323f/forum/ ... iming+belt

[quote="m0053"]The 1.8 in the BA is not a 'V' engine.
however, see the thread below for a story of a snapped cambelt/timing belt (same difference) on a 1.8

http://www.club323f.com/club323f/forum/ ... iming+belt[/quote]

[color=blue]Sorry for confusion, was referring to 1.8 V6 installed in the MX-3[/color]