Galant 2.5 v6-24 timing belt

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Think I may be getting old, have gone from a TVR Chimaera, to an Audi S4, and now... to a Galant...

Can anyone tell me what the service interval for the cambelt is on one of these? The owner's handbook unsurprisingly says words to the effect of "don't think for yourself, just take it to a dealer every fortnight so we can bend you over"

The car has 63k on the clock and I have no record of it having had the belt changed - I'm thinking it would probably be wise to do it anyway as most of the ones that seem to wind up at the breakers yard have snapped cambelts!

Does anyone know of a kit with followers etc for sale anywhere? And how much it'll cost me?

Cheers

[Vixpy1]

Phone Ben at Eurospec, he will know

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Ouchy, just had a look at their website, yep it needs doing at 60k along with a ton of other stuff, coming to £915... guess I know why the last owner decided to flog it!

[System-G]

I had one of these...

Cost a bloody fortune in parts. Saved a bit because I did the spannering myself. But goddamn the part ripped a new one...

Was the reason I sold it. Otherwise couldn't fault the car for an "old man car"...

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I quite like it... when it's dark and I can't that see the interior is a sea of beige...

Getting serious stick from my mates for selling an S4 to buy this though, lol

[WildCards]

Camskill do the parts at reasonable cost if your up to a DIY job. Eurospec's online price list is geared towards the VR-4, if you give them a call it should be cheaper as you don't have things like the AYC to service or boost checks needed.

[stevemerceruk]

Where abouts are you.
We did a cambelt kit and waterpump on a galant VR-4 (legnum)
It wasnt that much trouble.
Where abouts are you bassed.

Steve

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I'm in Barnet in North London. Is it generally a good idea to do the water pump on these at the same time then?

[stevemerceruk]

Hi.
Im in fareham so a bit of a treck.
Any compitant garage can do it for you.
I got the parts from Camskill for around £100 (camkit) and i think the water pump was off Fleabay.
You should be looking around £250 labour (inc changing water pump).
It is well worth getting the pump done (as long as you can afford the extra money for the part (not a lot: heres one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Water-Pump-Japan-OEM-for-Leg... )
Most garages wont charge much more to do pump as everything else is already off and out the way so you may as well get it done for piece of mind.If it goes at a later date youll be paying another £2-250.

hope this helps

Steve

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Cheers. Suppose it makes sense to get it all sorted now... cheap is dear in the long run, as they say...