timing belt
i have a 2000 jetta 1.8t with 72000 miles on it. the owners manual says to replace the timing belt at 105,000. well needless to say mine blew out on the highway bending 12 of the 20 valves. luckily i have a friend who owns a garage and he has been helping me with it since i do not have the 3 or 4 thousand dollars to bring it to the dealer. after almost 2000 dollars for machine work, gaskets and everything else that you need to replace, and two months of weekend work i drove it for two days,then it acted up again. this weekend i took the engine apart again and found out one of the valve springs broke. so now the head is back at the machine shop and i am still without a car wich i am still paying on. this doesn’t include all the other promblems: broken window tracks, broken armrest, broken glove box, o2 sensors, radiator fan,etc. etc. “NEVER AGAIN”
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cashcowtdi Said,
June 10, 2004 @ 12:00 pm
timing belt – I was told by my DEALER and V/W that i would have to have my timing belt replaced at 40,000 miles? Thats right 40,000 miles and like an IDIOT i TOOK THERE WORD IT NEEDED TO BE DONE! The timing belt bill came to $913.00 dollars. Then i bought a bentley manual and found out i shouldn’t have gotten my first timing belt until 60,000 miles in my (manual golf tdi)V/W and my dealer at the time out right lied to me! I called v/w of america and told them when i put in my timing belt, and they didn’t care!
Pmeyer27 Said,
June 17, 2004 @ 12:00 pm
timing belt – Brought jetta in for timing belt replacment and the next day the crankshaft seal was broken and my new synthetic oil was everywhere. 4 days later they want to charge me $300 for repairs even though it was the fault of the initial routine service. Got the car back last night, drove 50 hard miles to make sure all was ok and found out this morning that they never put oil in the car!
DON’T GO TO CRESTMONT VW IN NORHTERN NJ!!!
Bryant Said,
July 17, 2004 @ 12:00 pm
timing belt – I’d go to this site and read on; hopefully it’ll help you out. Let me know how it goes
http://consumerlawpage.com/brochure/105.shtml