How many miles before a timing belt change?

[thehangmen]

How many miles before a timing belt change? on a 2.5D/

[motorwise]

I do 'em every 40,000 and they come off looking OK still

[MrMPuk]

I believe the service interval is about 60000.

[Nighthawk]

Depends on the year of manufacture tbh

48000
60000
50000

and their multiples have all been used, in that order.

[FredTransit]

I would say 50,000!! Though the only one that ever went on us went at 35,000 so you never know! Alway do them when the engien goes is or when you buy a van too, as you don't know when the last change was done.

[thehangmen]

Thats all good to know we only covered 13000 so far.

[thehangmen]

On our last van the belt went at a tollbooth in France in the middle of the night - the AA steped in and we had it back the next day with new rods, cost us £150 on top and we didn't miss a gig - scarey at the time though.

[FredTransit]

On our last van the belt went at a tollbooth in France in the middle of the night - the AA steped in and we had it back the next day with new rods, cost us £150 on top and we didn't miss a gig - scarey at the time though.

You got this done in the middle of the night?? Which bit of France was this

[thehangmen]

On our last van the belt went at a tollbooth in France in the middle of the night - the AA steped in and we had it back the next day with new rods, cost us £150 on top and we didn't miss a gig - scarey at the time though.

You got this done in the middle of the night?? Which bit of France was this

Near Epernay, the champagne region, just past Paris.

[FredTransit]

I am stunned. They actually WORKED in the middle of the night?? The best I have ever got (3 times in maybe 18 years, four times a year) is to get dumped in a poorly secured yard and abandoned.......

[thehangmen]

I am stunned. They actually WORKED in the middle of the night?? The best I have ever got (3 times in maybe 18 years, four times a year) is to get dumped in a poorly secured yard and abandoned.......

They worked on it the next day, even got offered accomodation by the AA

[FredTransit]

Ah right, I have never been happy with leaving the (loaded) van in some yard full of striken and smashed motors. I stay with.