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Got recovered home following engine failure on commute home. Looks like my 1.3mj 4x4 needs a new timing chain at only 106k miles ?
 
Got recovered home following engine failure on commute home. Looks like my 1.3mj 4x4 needs a new timing chain at only 106k miles ?

My sympathies, jury is out on interference thing, so fingers crossed,
I'm officially dropping my moaning about needing a new exhaust.
 
Got recovered home following engine failure on commute home. Looks like my 1.3mj 4x4 needs a new timing chain at only 106k miles ?

That's a pain. I've heard of the chains snapping at 70,000 miles and the wrong oil specs have been blamed. Makes me think the chain is not really up to the job if you need a special oil. At one time nearly every car had a chain and breakages were very rare.
 
That's a pain. I've heard of the chains snapping at 70,000 miles and the wrong oil specs have been blamed. Makes me think the chain is not really up to the job if you need a special oil. At one time nearly every car had a chain and breakages were very rare.
My mechanic says that this engine is used in Corsas and Astras as well and has a history of early failures. He'd usually expect them to go for 250k miles without a problem. The car is back on the road but I don't know the full details of what was damaged yet.
 
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