Ahhh... well my experience is that the belt begins to shred and for a few
hundred miles you can hear it swatting the cover, that is the alarm. Course
you have to be real sensitive to hear it.

Rachel http://www.gnarlodious.com
Entity Milo spoke thus:

>> YOU CANNOT TELL THE BELT'S HEALTH BY LOOKING AT IT.
>>
>> One moment it looks fine, the next it's broken!
>
> Well, yes and no.  Granted, a belt can look fine and not be.  But a belt
> can also look like hell, a very good sign that it's not fine.  A few years
> ago,
> the Rabbit diesel I was driving had about 60K since the timing belt had been
> changed (the belt was about 3 years old) - popped the timing belt cover off
> to look at it, and you could see cracks on the inside of the belt.  This
> visual inspection just reinforced what I was already gonna do - change the