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iichel wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:31 am 6C has a timing belt.
I'm not aware of any systematic issues with these cars to be honest. I read about some faults in the software of the control modules but these mostly occur when three car is in its first year. It was when solved within warranty.
Otherwise just make a test drive. Turn off the radio on bumpy roads and listen for squeaks and rattles.

iichel wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 10:06 am get your mileage converter out, my software only does mainland kilometres.
So check belt first after 240.000km and then every 30.000km. I gues that would be around 160.000 miles and then every 20.000 miles.

iichel wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:00 pm I'm Dutch and I can pretty much guarantee you, we do this. A lot. No helmets either.

iichel wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 10:18 am if your'e only driving 4000 miles a year, is a car something worth spending so much money on?

(just kidding)

iichel wrote:

Yes but we are talking about UK here, in general people are not civilised enough to work out that there are other people out there with other needs - social/moral fabric has been abandoned to save money! Governments see that there is no money in cycling or supporting alternative means of personal transport, so very little provision is made to provide a safer environment for them.

RUM4MO wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:08 pm On the subject of when the cam belt is due to get replaced, I think that you should ask your salesman about that. My wife runs an August 2015 Polo 1.2TSI SEL and I've always wondered what the real proper correct pan European guidance on this is. There will be a maximum mileage advised I'd hope and for people that do not run many miles per year there should also be a maximum age between belt changes.

I have a funny feeling that if I asked that question in the service department of the main dealership that my wife bought her car from new and who still service it, I would be told the generic 5 years or 60/65K miles - I hope that I'm wrong there, but I don't want to end up with a newish car having cam drive issues - with the older 1.4 16V engine, I think that the belt change time is 5 years or ??K miles (my daughter runs a late 2009 Ibiza 1.4 16V 86PS SC, I got that car's belt changed when it was just a couple of months under 5 years old, and would plan to get her to repeat that activity this summer. Typically with a car that has a dry running fibre/rubber cam belt, it tends to be some other element in the drive train that fails and causes the belt to break etc, I'd never want that to happen just due to trying to save a few hundred pounds cash. I'm not sure how many cars would get away with checking the belt for degradation every few years, also as yet I have not worked out what else should get replaced when the belt is replaced, obviously changing the water pump makes sense and that should mean getting replacement coolant put into that car - and so on and on it goes and the cost rises, but maybe the engine is saved?

iichel wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:00 pm
Yes but we are talking about UK here, in general people are not civilised enough to work out that there are other people out there with other needs - social/moral fabric has been abandoned to save money! Governments see that there is no money in cycling or supporting alternative means of personal transport, so very little provision is made to provide a safer environment for them.