Cam Belt Change

[John Edwards]

Hi all , an enquiry regard Cam Belt .My 2006 2.7d had belt change at 55000 in 2015 .Car now on 74000 and 7 years later . Should I be getting this done ? 

 

Thanks all .

[Aubrey]

Hi john,

Not sure on XJ but in general usually Cams are recommended to be changed either every 4 - 5 years or or between 40 - 100k.

Probably does not need it but I would just ere on the side of caution.

Kind Regards,

Julie. 

[John Edwards]

Many thanks Julie. 

[mrmike]

I read up on this a couple of years ago, If I rememer correctly the belts should be changed every 160KKms or 10 years. According to the service history they were changed at 162kKms when the car had 12 yrs, now 5 yrs and 70KKms later I am not particularly bothered. Fingers Crossed. Actually last week I changed the timing belt on my son's Camper, It is 30 yrs old, and has 220KKms on the clock. The last belt change was at 100kKms.

The old belt looked perfect but the difference in the cam timing was about  2 or 3 degrees.