Timing Belt

[rrk1368]

My dealer wants to change my timing belt. I have 63k miles on my SF 2.7 v6. Realisticly, can I wait a while on this, or should it be done immediatly, its very expensive. Thanks for any info.

[tcfco2005]

I would if i were you. My santa fe just got out of the shop for the crankshaft position sensor and he replaced my timing belt since he was already in there and at under 60000 i was about 3 teeth away from destroying my engine..my timing belt was getting ready to fail and if it would have broke my engine would be messed up..So i would go ahead and do it now before its too late

[Jalmir]

change it, as tcfco2005 said, if the belt snap it WILL cost you an engine, so better paying 250-300$ than a few thousands!

[dmiller66]

Timing belt?? I dont know how critical it really is to change it at exactly the specified intervals. I haven't changed mine yet, 2002 Elantra with 124,000 miles.

[Jalmir]

then change it, timming belts show no sign of wear, they just snap, I've seen a few blown engines that were just 20k miles above the 60k miles recommendation.

As I said you better pays a few hundreds then a few thousands!

[earltash]

Change it..... These vehicals are really junk, and the parts are crap......
Better change it...then go buy a Toyota......

[Rpg0]

Older post I know...

I had a crankshaft position sensor go out and had to have the vehicle towed. Opted to have the timing belt(s), tensioners replaced at that time. Vehicle has 61,886mi on it. I wouldn't let these go past their recommended replacement mileage.