Your Yardley Auto Repair Shop Can Change Your Timing Belt

If your Yardley auto repair shop informed you that your car’s timing belt needed to be changed, you might wonder if it was really necessary. But your timing belt is a critical component of your engine and if it breaks, your engine will fail. You certainly don’t want to be cruising down the Interstate at 75 mph and have it break, that would definitely be an unwanted issue.

Your timing belt is responsible for the synchronization of your engine’s functions, it controls the crankshaft and camshaft and the opening and closing of the many valves in your engine. When a timing belt does break, the valves will open at the wrong time and hit the pistons, causing potentially serious damage.

Unfortunately, this will not be obvious signs that a timing belt is near the end if its life. Which is why it is highly recommended you have yours changed every 60,000 to 100,000 miles or per manufacturer’s recommendations. Timing belts are largely ignored by car owners, but should be high on the list of maintenance. In many cases, it is totally worth having the water pump and other hardware replaced at the same time in an effort to save money.

Now, if you are lucky, you might suffer symptoms of a faulty timing belt before it breaks including loss of power, loss of fuel economy, engine vibration and misfiring.

While having your timing belt replaced will set you back several hundred dollars, replacing your broken timing belt and fixing the damage it has done could easily run thousands of dollars.