So, if a belt breaks before its time and it's not because of a flawed or
underdesigned belt, what is the cause?
  "Operator error"?

A friend of ours just had the belt break on their 2001 PT Cruiser.  The
repair quote estimate is $1200.
I don't know the mileage; I assume it's non-interference.
Larry A.

Benny boy wrote:

>I will rephrase, let's say that when they break before their time, it's not
>because of the belt itself. But i have never seen one myself, your a lucky men.
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>Ben
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>On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:36 -0700, Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM> wrote:
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>>>Sorry guys but a timming belt does't break, that's urban legend.
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>>Don't know where you're coming from with this Benny, but if that's an urban
>>legend I'm living in the Twilight Zone. I've personally had two timing belts
>>break before their 'time' (one in a Rabbit diesel- that one destroyed the
>>head) and more recently I knew a guy that had a late-model Mitsubishi (iirc)
>>that busted a belt at around 30K.
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>>Cya,
>>Robert
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