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stuffed? I have a second car this one owes me next to nothing I'm far from stuffed lol I'd call it an annoyance which I don't have time for right now. Stuffed not at all... If I binned it tomorrow it would cost me very little.

I gave as much insight as I could. I explained in depth what happened and why I was here. And 100% agree plenty have brough good advice to the table. My intent was to get a camera in the head before doing anything. I read that it was an interference engine which told me it was going to have caused damage but figured there would potentially be others that had the same bad luck and that I would learn what route they took.

why would my belt failing panic others? My car and my circumstances are not reason for anyone with a 2.0 tdi to panic lol If the title was 'clickbate' and I had said 'Skoda Octavia 2.0tdi bad design timing belt fail' then you might have a point. I don't have time to split hairs mate, just walk on by if your not going to fetch anything of any worth to the table... I don't need schooling thank you very much.

Think on? You feel that me having a title that says snapped timing belt will put others off buying a Skoda? Or that it is misleading? It seems to have drawn enough people here to offer good advice so from my standpoint the title does what it was intended to do.

Right but what difference does that make with my situation? The belt has failed irrespective of anything that is what I need to address the past has no relevance what so ever as I'm not trying to sell the car here. Essentially if the belt has gone which it has and given it happened how it did and given its an interference engine what is the best move moving forward. I'm not here for people to diagnose why it happened.....

Its too late to look back, 'would have, could have, should have serves no gain other than gratitude to the person scorning (not suggesting that that is your intent btw)

The car was bought by myself along with two additional identical cars from motopoint they had less than 10k on them at the time. I sourced them for the sales reps at the company that I was the GM for at the time. The reps were spread out the UK so they took cars to local approved garages for their servicing. I have all the receipt's... Not in front of me right now.... Ultimately what difference does it make? The timing belt was taken out by the fan belt snapping and wrapping around it.... I have no recourse with the garage. I get you guys want the full picture and thought I gave a good overview at the start of this thread. That company I was the GM at decided to cease trading so I bought the car off the CEO. I usually run newer cars but I started my own business to decided to just run the Skoda for my commute until the company is up and running, its still early days for the business. Thankfully I have an Abarth 595 comp, aka ****box which was bought for ****s and giggles a good while back, thats being used at the moment. Hopefully that provides better insight. I feel a little like I'm being quizzed so that someone can say you had it coming or I failed to look after the car, both are not true. All three of those cars had servicing done in accordance to Skoda or the VAG group. The belt has gone end of, I need to work out what to do in the most cost effective manner as I have a new business that I'm growing. I'm also near 50, have driven for longer than I haven't. I was working on cars from the age of 12 with my dad, timing engines, changing exhausts, rebuilding brakes alone too. I'm also a petrol head have two supersport bikes a new'ish R1 and a ZX-10r. I'm here for advice not schooling lol I do appreciate the sensible helpful advice guys 👍

fan belt same thing right? The charging system

when the car went into the garage in Milton Keynes they changed whatever was due to be changed. up until about 5k ago it was a company car with no expense spared on servicing. I have receipts somewhere from that Garage.

I believe 149,000

Lot's of the Ford Sierra's had a non interferance engine? MY old Capri B reg back in the day was a non interfereance engine if I remember rightly.... I guess it depends on the engine fitted, defo the 2.0 ltr Pinto was a non interferance so you'd get away with a timing belt snap on them.

Quite possibly, I did smell rubber as it started running rough but I literally had 5 secs to react

I agree - but thats not something I have any recourse with sadly so no pint in pointing the finger at poor servicing by the garage that generally did the service work. The car was with a sales rep in Milton Keynes the garage servied it regular and charged handsomley for it but that was in the past. There is no recourse there.

Yeah next port of call is to either sell the car as a spares and repairs or to get it in to a speciliat to have it checked over.... I thought that the injectors would be under the intake manifold and quite some work to get out to stick a camera inside. If I had a compression test done, I'm guessing you would have had to have had the camera in there first to establish if the valve caps have snapped off etc... as turning it over to test comperssion with snapped valve caps would only make things a million times worse. I recon orused head is possibly the best way to go, but I need to take the plunge and find a decent garage that can collect the car to do those tests trouble is it would likley cost at least £150 just to get it towed to a garage in the first instance.... Everything you do is money sadly. I know I could likley take the head off myself but the weather is a little too cold to be stuck outside doing that at the moment. yeah must be I'll need to check

Thanks, it's what I figured to be the case, what a nightmare..... Had I been neglectful to the service interval I#d say I had it coming but it's pur and simple bad luck.... Not sure why there isn't something placed on the enging to prevent the fan belt being dragged into the path of the main timing belt.