No, it won't hurt to do it early. Every 60K is a good rule of thumb to follow with the timing belt, water pump and tensioner.

 

What do you mean he should have known better? The only reason I knew I had to change mine was because of this forum. Audi publishes a service schedule and for most owners thats all they'll have to go on so unless someone informs them differently they would not know. The Audi service departments have not been letting their customers know this and routinely service cars and make no mention of the issue until it breaks and they blame it on the owner for not buying an extended warranty. It is VAGs fault that these belts break well before their schedule replacement. If the service interval recommends 90 or 105K depending upon the VW/Audi Model it should last that long. When my friend had hers break on her A4 she had no idea of the problem until I informed her of it at 64k well below the 90k recommend service interval.If the TT was an airplane and this happened 1/100th of the times its happened on these cars thegovernment would have fined them out of business.

 

ecstuning.com has an AMU engine complete for $2749 see how much the labor difference would be....i think to do the head job its listed as 15-17 hr job.

 

OK. I just tried to get my timing belt replaced. My 2001 Roadster has 61,000 miles on it. The mechanic said if it has the newer tensioner on it it does not need replacing yet. Should I just tell him to do it anyway?

 

Looks like I'll be doing mine earlier than I had wanted. I've got 56k on mine and wanted to wait until June but I may not have a choice. All I need is for that thing to break on me and be in audistud13's situation. I know of two kits one from ecstuning and one from diselgeek. I'm planning on the ECS Tuning Ultimate 1.8T Timing Belt Kit Combo With Red Under Drive Pulley Kit (lighter weight) but want to look at the other and can't find diselgeek.com so what's the site for them? Any other maintenance I should do while I'm in there? Transmission fluid, coolent, etc? Just did the plugs and coils 2k ago.
Thanks

 

Replace it. The parts are cheap, it's the labor that is the biggest cost. Don't go cheap on this, do it all.

 

He has been a member about a month longer than you and you have seem to of picked up on how important changing the timing belt is. what is the first thing people get told when they have just bought the car? "get the timing belt replaced at ~60k miles." Its really a broken record, just like the chip, dv, and intake stuff.

 

Mine is going in the middle of the year about august, im at 44K miles right now so that gives me some playing room. I am probably going to just do it myself and save some $$$. Wish me luck!

 

well i have 82K miles on it, i bought it with 79k so yeah i havent had more than 4 months so i am gonna make the dealership i bought it from pay for everything, if they dont they will be recieving a lawsuit and my foot up their *** daily until they decide to compensate me. GO REPLACE YOUR TIMING BELT, AT MOST IT WILL COST YOU A GRAND, THATS A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN 4-6 K. PLEASE LISTEN TO ME ITS NOT WORTH IT. o and yeah i new it might happpen but i was between jobs and didnt have any money. the weirdest part is there are no warning signs like bad idling or ruff engine stuff. it just happens and you are fucked.
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Diesel Geek Just match your engine code.
The kit is $259, you can also get 1.5L of G12 from them for $6... My car apparently took 6 quarts of G12, which cost me over $100. So this is a steal!