Hi I know the subject of timing belt change intervals has been covered many, many  times but I think the information given by the main agents is adding to the confusion, I had the cam belt, water pump, and cam belt kit changed on my 2008 skoda fabia 1.4 TDi pd car, this was done on  the 09/08/12 it was the time period rather than the mileage made me decide to get this done recently I rang the main skoda agents to ask when it was due again they took my registration number and said 80,000 miles or 4 years, I then phoned another main skoda agents just to double check, they again took my car details, they  said it was 120,000 miles or 5 years as my car would have been fitted with an upgraded belt????

Does any member have any information as even the main agents don't seem to agree.

 

Thank you

I'd say the first one 4 years or 80,000?

Howeverrr I don't actually know myself so a useless reply, more opinion I suppose.

Upgraded belt? What is this? I tend to think about what Continental say in that belts have 'best before' (please don't take that terminology too seriously, you know what I mean) of around 5 years, which includes sitting on the shelf waiting to be purchased. So unless you're doing mega miles 4 years to be on the safe side sounds good. 80000 sounds good for a belt. My Ibiza had it done before my ownership in 2013, I'm therefore thinking I'll get it done late next year. I'm no tech though, as said I'm sure someone will have a more specific answer. You're right though the variation is confusing.

Thanks for your replies, I  thought 5years might be pushing it a bit so I will change it at 4 years.

Yeah as 5 years includes shelf life I'm inclined to think the same, not really got a clue what the mileage recommendation is though, 80000 sounds like a lot.

I think it's...

4 years or 60,000 on a PD engine but again, just more opinion rather than fact.

Think I'll go with 4 unless I do 50k quicker than expected

I think this is right.... But might be 1.9 PD only....

 

Originally, Skoda specified 6 years or 120K kilometres...

 

After a while they issued a tech note to service agents specifying 4 years and 60K miles.

 

J.

I think this is right.... But might be 1.9 PD only....

 

Originally, Skoda specified 6 years or 120K kilometres...

 

After a while they issued a tech note to service agents specifying 4 years and 60K miles.

 

J.

I'm happy with that, sounds fairly reasonable