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Originally Posted by lendaddy
I am always curious about swapping timing belts out at that interval. I'm sure some engines have design issues but 100k seems silly to me. I have two Toyota 4.7Ls, one with 180K and the other over 400K...both on the original timing belts. Junk yard motors to drop in if they go are cheap enough IMHO to take the risk.
To the mechanics on here... how often do you actually see snapped or jumped belts on any motors? Maybe I'm just lucky but I wouldn't bother with the belt.
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not that im condoning pushing the interval, but I changed the TB on my wrx @ 105k miles per the manual. It looked to be in near mint condition. Not a sign of a frey or cracking.
Im sure it could go another 50k miles, but for 140$ in parts and a few hours of labor the piece of mind is worth it.