Marea Photo how-to: Marea 20v cam belt change

Lets start off with the obvious ones. Apply the handbrake tightly, chock a rear wheel, jack up the car and remove the driver’s side roadwheel. Support the car securely on axle stands. Under the wheel arch, remove the two parts of splash shield under the wing – one with the grille on behind the fog lamp and another covering the drive belts. You should be faced with a view a little like this:


Those 6 little bolts surrounding the big one on the crank pulley are Torx ones, you’ll need a TX45 bit to loosen them. Undo them one at a time, don’t remove yet, and put them back in finger tight. Then, turn the crank using a 19mm spanner or socket on the big bolt in the middle until the nick in the pulley and the notch on the timing belt cover line up – you can’t miss it, it’s just off the vertical position. Now you may remove them along with the pulley – it won’t turn the crank this way if they’re already loose.