The timing belt in my vanagon (1.8 liter inline four VW ) looks more like a
garter belt...It is quite whispy...tiny even...When I first got in there,
doing some stuff to the alternator belt, I thought the timing belt was a
power steering or a fan of some sort..
Very unlike the huge long fat serpentine one on my 4-cam V8 water cooled
Porsche..the one .that broke and cost me 31 bent valves @ $141 per valve...
  Don Hanson

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:41 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> Come on now, I have 5 Vanagons with timing belts and 4 of those came
> with them from the factory.
>
> Mark
>
>
> David Kao wrote:
>
>> My 2001 Passat V6 reached 100K miles a few months ago. I had worried
>> that the timing belt needed replacement and needed to be done soon
>> as the warranty had run out.
>> ..........
>> I am glad that Vanagons (Vanagon content) do not use a timing belt.
>>
>> David
>>
>>