What are the sypmtoms of a failing timing belt? What sound am I expecting to hear?

 

I'm not sure you can hear any difference in sound, other than maybe the engine beginning to run very badly because the belt is soworn enough tobeginto jump timing, and you can shut it off immediately before damage, if your lucky........or if your unlucky....the beltjust suddenly breaks, which is probably more likely...hope your not driving a stick andin fast heavy city traffic, because the car is going to want to stop suddenly unless you pop it out of gear quickly because the engine just locked up, [:'(]catastrophically![:@]

It's never happened to me, so I actually don't have first handknowledge, but generally when a belt goes, there is no warning that is why the car mfg's recommend belt changes well before they are too wornto break!

 

Dealer told me belt should be replaced at 95000 miles. does anyone know if this is correct.

 

Quote from Auidtech79...The dealer says 105k but that has been changed to 80k because of the high number of timing belt failures.
Get it checked ASAP.

 

75k is the recommended service interval, some say 60k if modded

 

Hey if you gonna quote me put it in quotation marks LOL.