• ma11en@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I had a mk2 Golf booked in to have the timing belt replaced, 1 week before it snapped.

        2 weeks later it was crushed by a tank at Mallory race track.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Ouch.

          My father snapped the timing belt in his turbo Passat at freeway speed many years ago. I suspect, but cannot prove, that he money shifted it. He reported that the noise it made was “bang.” I believe it.

            • Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              The reason I say before 2008 is that around that time VW embraced programmed obsolescence with open arms. I have a 2012 Touran and around 200000 km (not miles) everything started breaking at once. Both driver and passenger side window lifts, front stabilizers and coils (separately), rear coils, gearbox control unit, rear lock, horn, file lines (twice) and now, to rub salt in the financial wound, it lost every drop of oil from the engine into a shopping centre carpark.