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Originally Posted by Popkih
Have any of you decided to keep a 944 after a timing belt break? What did you do? Spend?
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Two weeks before I closed on the sale of my house in Denver, I had the t-belt break on my '86 N/A. It only had 22K miles on the belt. I was preparing to move 1800 miles away to central Virginia, all my other vehicles were already in VA, and it was during a January snow storm. I towed the broken '86 to Virginia, stared at it for 10 months, then finally bought another head for it. Put it in the shop (too busy to do the work myself), and began feeding the mechanic parts-rollers, belts, water pump, etc. Christmas Eve he called to say the car was ready, they were closing early, come get it on Monday. On Monday, I get the phone call that the shop caught fire that night with my car in it. It was totalled. Got a settlement from the insurance company, bought the car back for $175.00, sold it as is for $1500.00, bought an '89 S2 with tensioner pad failure, broken cylinder head, crashed valves, bought another head for it from a fellow Pelican, started the whole process all over again...
DETERMINATION. Sometimes cars test us to make sure we're worthy. Fix it.