My VW Golf Mark IV 2003's timing belt has recently snapped (i know, should have been more attentive with the servicing) and we're wondering what to do. Speed was about 20mph at time of incident, ...

I had a 1991 Civic. At 105,000 miles, the timing belt broke while we were driving. I pulled off to the side of the road and just to make sure to do the worst thing I possibly could do, I then cranked ...

Q: I recently had to have a new water pump put in my 2005 VW Bug. At the same time, they replaced the timing belt. Twenty-three days later, I was stranded because the timing belt broke. After they ...

Q: I had a 1991 Civic. At 105,000 miles, the timing belt broke while we were driving. I pulled off to the side of the road – the cold, dark, middle-of-nowhere, Indiana road – and just to make sure to ...

I had a 1991 Civic. At 105,000 miles, the timing belt broke while we were driving. I pulled off to the side of the road — the cold, dark, middle-of-nowhere, Indiana road — and just to make sure to do ...

Q: You recently wrote about a guy whose timing belt broke, and who tried to restart his car but whose valves survived only through sheer good luck. In 1957, I had a new Ford six-cylinder, standard ...

I recently had the timing belt replaced in my son's car (a '97 VW Passat) by a local mechanic in southwest Michigan. The next day, my son left to drive back to New York City, where he is a student. An ...

Yes there is a chance that when the belt broke it may have caused damage to the engine (valves etc). When the belt broke was the engine revving hard? If so, the risk would be greater. To set the ...

I OWN a 1999 Holden Astra TS CD which I bought new. It has done 76,000km and I have it serviced as advised in the owner's manual, but recently it lost all power when the timing belt broke. Being a ...

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