Scudo Cam Belt Question

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Six years ago, I had the cam belt, tensioner, idler and water pump replaced on my Fiat Scudo 2.0 Jtd, 2004 old shape van. The garage used the genuine Fiat kit I bought from the main dealer.

At 6 years, the belt is now due for renewal. However, in those 6 years the van has only covered 12,000 miles. Should I renew the tensioner, idler and pump again, or just the belt?

I realise the rubber belt would degrade over time, but I'm thinking the other components have only covered a low mileage.

Thanks for any advice.
 
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I'd settle for just the belt - the other parts will have had minimal stress. I'd consider a new alternator belt at the same time though, but even this is unlikely to be necessary.
John :)
 
firstly, dont go genuine again,

purchase a gates, dayco, continental or INA timing belt. Personally i recomend INA as they offer and honour the oem service schedule (even if that is 100,000 miles or 10 years) where as the others only offer 2 year limited mileage warranties, however all 4 companies are Original Equipment for various brands and various engines.

for total piece of mind personally i would replace everything, i know they've only covered 12k miles but sods law says something will fail shortly after paying to have just the belt replaced.

you'll have to double check if this is the right kit for your engine https://www.bestpartstore.co.uk/2385000-ina-water-pump-timing-belt-set

i worked in a motor factors for 10 years,a and my wife still works there so i know the info above is correct and true.
 
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Thanks for all your replies - really appreciated. I think I'll just do the belt for now - ordered a Dayco from GSF. Hopefully it will be genuine from them - didn't want to risk something from Ebay that may say Gates/Dayco on the box, but really be knocked up in a Chinese sweat shop. The idler, tensioner and pump should be fine on 12,000 miles and I'm very careful not to thrash my vehicles. Only time it gets a thrashing is just before the MOT to give it a blow out for the emissions. Rest of the year it gets driven very carefully. Will change everything in 6 years if I still have the van - probably will knowing me.

While I'm at it, I bought a Gates auxiliary/fan belt kit as the belt, idler and tensioner are possibly original. I've certainly never changed them in the 13 years I've owned the van. :eek: Definitely well past replacement.
 
A good move to keep the auxiliary belt in good nick - on two occasions I dealt with, one snapped and stranded, the strands went into the timing belt cover and whipped the belt off.....but neither caused valve damage, to my amazement. One vehicle was a Mk1 Megane, can't remember the other one though.
John :)
 
A good move to keep the auxiliary belt in good nick - on two occasions I dealt with, one snapped and stranded, the strands went into the timing belt cover and whipped the belt off.....but neither caused valve damage, to my amazement. One vehicle was a Mk1 Megane, can't remember the other one though.
John :)

Amazing what a bit of rubber and the internal reinforcement can do at those RPMs. Always careful to keep my digits away from the moving parts.
 
A good move to keep the auxiliary belt in good nick - on two occasions I dealt with, one snapped and stranded, the strands went into the timing belt cover
My next door neighbours Tiguan snapped it's auxiliary belt which tangled up with the cam belt, broke it and did £5.5K's worth of damage. :eek:
 
Thanks to all who answered. Got a local Peugeot/Citroen specialist to put a new Dayco cam belt in for me today, and got him to replace the aux belt with a Gates kit that included the aux tensioner and idler. All the aux belt components were probably original - I definitely haven't changed any of them in the 13 years I've had the van. Hopefully another 6 years without any dramas in the belt area.

I'd been thinking that there was a slight high pitched whine from the aux tensioner for quite a while, and could detect slight endfloat in the tensioner. Whine now gone so it looks like that was the case.
 
I think that uses a Peugeot 12 valve Hdi engine, if so you may find that the Peugeot parts are cheaper.

Peter

It's the ubiquitous 2.0 Peugeot Citroen PAS engine - Jtd if in a Fiat, Hdi if Peugeot/Citroen. Unfortunately it's only an 8 valver. Whenever I trawl for parts on the web and put in Scudo 2.0 Jtd, I'm always asked if it's the 8 or 16 valve engine. I don't know of anyone who's has a Scudo 16 valve, but the 8 valve is lively enough. Maybe they use them in the Scudo taxi version. Perhaps the 12 valve units are used in the Pug Expert/Citroen Dispatch versions of the Scudo. nless it's used in the newer shape Scudos after 2007.
 
The 8 valve engine is virtually bombproof, I ran them in Peugeot 406s for about 10 years. A lot easier to work on then the 16 valve which I currently have in my C5's.

Peter
 
The 8 valve engine is virtually bombproof, I ran them in Peugeot 406s for about 10 years. A lot easier to work on then the 16 valve which I currently have in my C5's.

Peter

Had mine 13 years and the engine (100,000 miles) sounds as good as when I bought it at 2.5 years old. I'm easy on my engines, especially when cold. And because I do a lot of town miles, it gets filter and quality (Mobil, Castrol) oil every 5,000 miles. Probably overkill, but in the past my cars have gone to the scapyard with sweet engines, but unfortunately bodies rusted beyond economic repair. It's the old saying about oil being cheap and engines being expensive.

I'm told that these 2.0HDi engines can do 250K or more if looked after. Hope the body lasts the distance too!
 
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