Cam belt time?

[vanilla_ice]

Hi,

The cam belt of my 2001 AMK was last changed in April 2012. Since then it has covered 25K miles.

Should I get it replaced as part of an upcoming service?

Thanks.

 

[S3AMJ]

Hi,

The cam belt of my 2001 AMK was last changed in April 2012. Since then it has covered 25K miles.

Should I get it replaced as part of an upcoming service?

Thanks.

Audi suggest replacing the camber every 6 years or 60,000 miles which ever comes first. Others have run them for longer without issues.... but I’d change it more regularly personally. As your at 6 years now, I’d change it for piece of mind.


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[vanilla_ice]

Thanks @S3AMJ

Is there anything else to consider replacing while in that area?

 

[S3AMJ]

I’d replace, any bearings/tensioners and waterpump as a minimum mate. Make sure you go for the metal impeller waterpump.


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[<tuffty/>]

tensioner damper... almost always gets left out on a belt change

<tuffty/>

 

[basil brush]

I’d replace, any bearings/tensioners and waterpump as a minimum mate. Make sure you go for the metal impeller waterpump.


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I thought the popular train of thought was PLASTIC impeller pump as they don’t leak like metal ones but must be changed every time you do the belt ???

 

[S3AMJ]

I thought the popular train of thought was PLASTIC impeller pump as they don’t leak like metal ones but must be changed every time you do the belt ???

Personal preference I suppose, metal impeller would last longer. Heard horror stories of the plastic impeller shredding/breaking.


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[basil brush]

Only if it isn’t changed when the belt is .
The metal ones a known to leak .
We’re all different

 

[<tuffty/>]

Personal preference I suppose, metal impeller would last longer. Heard horror stories of the plastic impeller shredding/breaking.


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Metal impeller pumps are rubbish dude... leak through the shafts on all the ones I have seen... plastic pumps only break because people don't change them at the same time as the belt...

Buy an OE pump.... they are not that expensive and just work... I have an OE pump in mine new when I built my engine... it will get changed in a year or so when I do the belt...

<tuffty/>

 

[S3AMJ]

Metal impeller pumps are rubbish dude... leak through the shafts on all the ones I have seen... plastic pumps only break because people don't change them at the same time as the belt...

Buy an OE pump.... they are not that expensive and just work... I have an OE pump in mine new when I built my engine... it will get changed in a year or so when I do the belt...

<tuffty/>

Consider me told.... OP listen to Tuffty, he’s seen far more than I have.


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[<tuffty/>]

Metal impeller pumps are one of those interweb myths thats founded on a degree of plausibility... I nearly went down that route myself when I did my first belt change on the S3 long before I got heavy into modding it...

Bill even ran one for a while on the badgerwagon but that leaked through the shaft as do all the others it seems... not that some aftermarket plastic impeller ones are any better...

Thats why I used an OE one so I didn't have to be concerned about quality control...

<tuffty/>