"Larry Fishel" wrote in message
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On Jun 15, 12:02 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
Why would they give up a job - and risk their reputation - when they
have every "right" to just point at the manual and say "replace it at
90K"? Why push off a job now that they might not get a year from now?

Um... Possibly because they would rather have the bigger job of
rebuilding your engine when it fails?...

IMO, even if they are correct that they've never seen one fail before
110K, that would make 90K about the right time to change it...IF it's
an interference engine.

If it's not, then there's relatively little danger in waiting and a
significant chance that if you spend the money now, the car will
suffer some other catastrophic failure (that won't be wirth fixing)
before the belt would have failed, making it a waste.

You still haven't said what kind of car. Aside from the interference
issue, what car makes a big difference in how big of a project it is
to change the belt. They might be thinking that will have some other
reason to tear the engine apart soon and you might as well do the belt
then...

Just a few (contradictory) thoughts...

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You must live where it never snows for real. Either that or you have a
strange definition of "fun", like breaking down when plows are passing by
every 20 minutes to bury the road shoulders in snow.