"TE Cheah" <no@spam.biz> wrote
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> | It's due at 100k km "if
> | regularly driven in very low temp (-29 C, -20 F)"
> Isn't the type of belt ( nitrile / chloroprene ) relevant
?

I assume the manuals assume the owner is using an OEM belt.

Feel free to assume something else.

> | This group does get reports of broken timing belts.
> My F20A's original t-belt broke @79980 km, I had to buy a
5yr old
> F20A engine fr japan. >1 mechanic said t-belts ( in this
climate ) must
> be replaced by 70000 km :

Never heard of this for a Honda driven in the U.S. or
Canada. That's based on a lot of reading of manuals and
posts here over the last few years.

> sounds true ; my Mitsubishi 4G15P's original
> t-belt started to crack, by 76958 km, far < the 100000km
prescribed by
> honda / mitsubishi.