How to check timing belt?

tzenlip · 07-10-2008, 01:39 PM

recently bought this car(1999 protege323) from a private seller off carsales.

the car had done 110000KM, and i'm concern about the life of the timing belt, unable to contact the seller as he went oversea.doest have a service manual that i can look at

been trying to find the timing belt , but i supposed it is covered up inside , is it easy to open the cover to inspect the timing belt? or any alternative that i could use?

what i can see are alternator belt( new) and power steering belt.

how much on average they might cost me to change a timing belt for this car?I'm still hesitating to change or not because I've been spending too much on this car(audio , service and etc) !

some of my friends said they never change their cars' timing belt even they are on the 300 000kms or more ..

07-10-2008, 01:39 PM	#1
tzenlip Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: melbourne Car: Mazda 323 BJ Posts: 15	How to check timing belt? recently bought this car(1999 protege323) from a private seller off carsales. the car had done 110000KM, and i'm concern about the life of the timing belt, unable to contact the seller as he went oversea.doest have a service manual that i can look at been trying to find the timing belt , but i supposed it is covered up inside , is it easy to open the cover to inspect the timing belt? or any alternative that i could use? what i can see are alternator belt( new) and power steering belt. how much on average they might cost me to change a timing belt for this car?I'm still hesitating to change or not because I've been spending too much on this car(audio , service and etc) ! some of my friends said they never change their cars' timing belt even they are on the 300 000kms or more ..

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