SquareWheel
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Fiat 500 Owners, in the REAL WORLD how often are you (and your 500 owning friends) getting your timing belts changed? Does anyone know of a timing belt that did fail, and if yes, what age/distance had the poor wee thing travelled?
The information i'm reading about the Fiat 500 timing belt, and when it needs to be replaced, is seriously confounding
The Australian manual (fine print) says every 4 years no matter what the km's; in various other countries the suggested intervals can be as long as every 10 - 15 years.
Australia definitely seems to be the most conservative, but making the reasonable assumption that the cars mechanics are similar the world over, surely that means folks overseas *should* be experiencing timing belt failures left, right and centre because they aren't thinking about changing before 10+ years. Yet, nope, i'm not reading that at all
The information i'm reading about the Fiat 500 timing belt, and when it needs to be replaced, is seriously confounding
The Australian manual (fine print) says every 4 years no matter what the km's; in various other countries the suggested intervals can be as long as every 10 - 15 years.
Australia definitely seems to be the most conservative, but making the reasonable assumption that the cars mechanics are similar the world over, surely that means folks overseas *should* be experiencing timing belt failures left, right and centre because they aren't thinking about changing before 10+ years. Yet, nope, i'm not reading that at all