hi all!

A couple of weeks ago my fiat marea weekend developed a mis-fire that seemed to come and go, the red injection system light kept coming on intermittently (when i first started the car whilst it was misfiring). I know i should of got it seen to straight away but, ahem, i didnt.

Then today i was pulling off the drive and... snap.

I removed the top half of the cover (well made a gap) to confirm my suspicions that the belt had indeed snapped.

So first off; is it worth repairing. Its an X plate 1.6 97k on the clock and i paid £500 for it.

secondly, how far is the damage likely to have gone.. im assuming valves/head off etc...... and how expensive is this likely to be.

I work for a parts company so its not neccesarily the cost of the components to put right, more of the labour intensive side of it!

Thanks in advance!

James

scrap it if scrap is good in your area? your'd get about £170 for a marea here, if no ebay it, and buy another.

beau said:

scrap it if scrap is good in your area? your'd get about £170 for a marea here, if no ebay it, and buy another.

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i thought as much!! blimey does scrap really go for that much these days?

i just weighed a marea weekend in with no headlights top half of engine gone and no exhaust it come out at £115 in my area

Strip it, I did on my last one and made over a grand! It's amazing what people want an I just let the bits go cheap intact I gave the left overs to notorious131.

Yes he did, thanks Robin, and very much appreciated they were.
Claymore gave me some stuff aswell so if he's still nocking about here, cheers mate.

Notorious131 said:

Yes he did, thanks Robin, and very much appreciated they were.
Claymore gave me some stuff aswell so if he's still nocking about here, cheers mate.

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your welcome mate, nice to meet you

If its a 1.9jtd the pistons will be ok but some or all of the valves will be bent; recondition the head and it should be ok. Happend to my brothers car 2 years ok and its done over 20000m since ok

The engine will have bent valves and its a tricky little one to fix. Find a replacement engine and fit it in as cheap as you can (with a new belt) or scrap it.

If you do strip it, i will have a few bits off you.

cheers

robin