Camshaft Belt

[winnie]

Just a small question, I have a receipt for camshaft belt change 2012 and was wondering how long on average they last that's if I do under 10,000 a year.

Reg

[paul.h]

The replacement interval is in the maintenance/warranty book that comes with the car but they do alter it depending on the model year. In the book with our 2007 C5 it gives normal conditions as 160k miles and severe as 108k miles or 10 years if sooner for the 2.0 and 2.2 hdi. So you should be ok for a few years providing the pulleys and water pump were also replaced.

[winnie]

On the receipt the water pump was changed as well, I have had two cars go with cambelt's, my escort out side a scrap yard and a lovely Rover, both I had to scrap.

Thanks for the help  Reg 

[Johndouglas]

You shouldn't have any worries on the cambelt front for several years then however, it's not unknown for an auxiliary belt to snap and pieces of it get tangled in the cambelt and bring it off its pulleys.   I never change a cambelt without fitting a new auxiliary belt.   You can check the condition of the aux belt by looking down the front of the engine.