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jack.allwardt

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Glancing thru the maintenance suggestions, I see that my '08 booklet says the timing belt should be changed at 102,000. Accessory drive belt at 120,000.

I thought our 2.4L engines had a timing CHAIN and didn't need replacement.

Any thoughts, ideas, concerns, etc.?????
 
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jack.allwardt said:
Glancing thru the maintenance suggestions, I see that my '08 booklet says the timing belt should be changed at 102,000. Accessory drive belt at 120,000.

I thought our 2.4L engines had a timing CHAIN and didn't need replacement.

Any thoughts, ideas, concerns, etc.?????
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All the gas engines (the 2.0 and 2.4) have a chain. Only the diesels have a belt.
 
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jack.allwardt said:
Glancing thru the maintenance suggestions, I see that my '08 booklet says the timing belt should be changed at 102,000. Accessory drive belt at 120,000.

I thought our 2.4L engines had a timing CHAIN and didn't need replacement.

Any thoughts, ideas, concerns, etc.?????
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what booklet are you looking at?
my 07 maintenance schedule shows no such thing
few months ago I had a rattle thinking it could have been timing chain,
discussed it with dealer, timing chain is not a service item, if it fails or needs to be replaced it would be covered under lifetime engine warranty,
they inspected it for me and it was fine,
regardless there is no maintenance schedule for 07 timing chain
 
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Notice if you search Rock Auto, Advance Auto, etc you will not find the part even available, dealer only.
 
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This booklet was a "soft copy" that I received prior to my '08 being delivered. Page 394 (of 425...) shows this item under 2.4L only. I was looking up the info on U-COnnect, and discovered this page and thought that I recalled we (2.4 owners...) had a chain, not a belt. Problem/mystery solved! Thanks everyone.
 
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Just to re-iterate . . . we're sure the 08's have a chain? My son just bought one and in Googling I found some threads where people are saying belt and others where they say chain. Needless to say . . . I am scratching my head.
 
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Not a timing belt, chain, I think he was asking about the accessory belt (for alt and ac compressor, etc.). There are good videos on youtube showing how to do that. not too bad of a job, but you have to do a big part of it through the passenger side wheel well. (or is it the driver's side? I don't remember)
 
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Terasec said:
what booklet are you looking at?
my 07 maintenance schedule shows no such thing
few months ago I had a rattle thinking it could have been timing chain,
discussed it with dealer, timing chain is not a service item, if it fails or needs to be replaced it would be covered under lifetime engine warranty,
they inspected it for me and it was fine,
regardless there is no maintenance schedule for 07 timing chain
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Lol a booklet
 
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