OT - Decision Process: Replace Timing Belt Now or Wait?

[Mark Lloyd]

I left my car at the local Goodyear dealer and told him that 4 of the tires might need to be replaced. He called me on my cell phone and said only one of them needed it.

[N8N]

On most Chrysler trannies, from what I hear, "properly serviced" means servicing far more often than even the "severe service" schedule published in the official documentation, however. (talking about FWD here, not the old, better-built 727/904 etc.)

nate

[George]

From what I understand the reason is because chrysler intentionally choose to use undersize transmissions (one that one be used on a smaller series is fitted on a larger series) so they run much hotter and destroy the fluid much faster. The only hope of keeping them alive is to do very frequent fluid changes.

[DerbyDad03]

re: "...told him that 4 of the tires might need to be replaced."

How many tires did that car have?

[Percival P. Cassidy]

And I have read reports that the Gates timing belt sold for the Chrysler

300M doesn't always even fit correctly.

Perce

[Tegger]

[e-mail] (Doug Miller) wrote in news:hvd8p5$8am$ [e-mail]:

I posted an update and correction/clarification to that this morning at

8:35.

I said:

"That was indeed my point, but I expressed it badly. "To say it more clearly: If you keep the vehicle much over 110K, you've got a belt-change in there anyway, so that money /will/ get spend whether you spend it now or you spend it later. And if you spend it "later", you start to stray into belt-breakage territory, which is not wise with a Honda."

Where that reply went, I don't know, but it's not in my server's copy of this group.

[aemeijers]

???? Most of the cost is labor. When I had the rubber band changed in my

4-cyl Accord, they said the diff between OEM and imitation parts was maybe 20 bucks.

[Ed Pawlowski]

wrote

Can't speak for Chrysler cars. Never owned one, never will. I know too many people with too many problems on Chrysler car and I never liked their styling.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

I always liked how two year old Chryler mini-vans belched fumes like 20 year old Blazers, because engine tolerances were measured in whole inches. I also liked how Chrysler apologists rationalized this by saying the engines were made by someone else - maybe Mitsubishi - I don't recall.