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I'm new to this forum, but wanted input from anyone/everyone on the timing belts. My wife's 2003 Jetta 1.8T and her friend at work and one of my friends at work have all experienced timing belt breaks...and subsequent severe engine damage. VW corporate has refused to help because it's out of the 60K warranty. The service guide says to replace them at 105K. I'd like to know if anyone else had issues with these belts on cars that had between 60-105K. If so, please let me know. I've contacted a lawyer and am planning a class action lawsuit against VW - because this should not happen. When the belt breaks, it trashes the engine. Timing belts should never break, much less at 100K miles or earlier. Please let me know so we can get this fixed and wake the folks at VW up. I for one will never purchase a VW and am going to tell everyone I know to stay away from these junk cars!!!!! Chris Ingle wtknght1  aol.com
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Replying to: wtknght1 (Dec 19, 2008 9:52 am) Audi engines and some Hondas are the same way. It is always wise to know this when buying a car. Joe
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Replying to: jodar96 (Dec 19, 2008 10:25 am) Even Audi specs the 1.8T TB replacment interval at 60K or 80K miles. VW may have made a grave mistake specing it at 105K miles. To more specifically answer your question.... I did a quick search of the internet for this subject and found MANY folks that had their TB break before 105K miles.... I would suspect there is a class-action suit on the way  HOWEVER: I beleive that VW also speced an interval for the TB to be inspected at 40K and 80K.... If you cannot prove that your TB was inspected at the proper intervals, you may be SOL on this one.
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Replying to: bpeebles (Dec 19, 2008 2:27 pm) http://www.vw.com/dealer/MaintenanceSchedulesQuery.do?year=2003&engineCode=1.8T&- carModel=JETTA&TEMPLATENAME=maintenanceComplete&output=print |
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Replying to: foxro (Nov 20, 2008 11:50 am) |
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Hello, My wife has a 2000 VW Jetta with about 140,000KM on it. Recently, the heater doesn't seem to get hot at all. Sometimes it does (very rarely), but for the most part it just gets luke warm. I understand this could be the cause of the thermostat not opening? Is this something that is easy to replace on these cars (seems nothing is!). Could there be another issue? Thanks! Steve
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Replying to: pbc (Dec 21, 2008 7:58 am) |
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Replying to: pbc (Dec 21, 2008 7:58 am) |
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On my way into work this morning the temp gauge on my Jetta hit the max, and there was suddenly no heat coming from the heating vents. I did notice that the gauge would drop when going down a hill or sitting at a light. Any one have any ideas? It's almost -10 degrees outside and a long way for me to drive. I don't want to blow up my engine, but at the same time I have no alternate way to get to work. Thanks for any help.
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Replying to: edgekrusher187 (Dec 22, 2008 11:21 am) From your description of the symptoms... it sounds as if you have one or more of the following; 1)Ice in the cooling system blocking coolant flow (highly unlikely) 2)Waterpump which is not moving the coolant as it should. (known to happen with the plastic waterpump impeller) 3)Thermostat which is acting up (Not likely because you were getting NO HEAT when the guage was at max) 4) Guage wrong (Again ...Not likely because you were getting NO HEAT when the guage was at max) |
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