Timing Belt Wear

[rcheli]

Greetings,

I've recently got an imported r34 with good paperwork. A bunch of stuff

was done to it in 2003, and included in the invoices is part 13028-RSR45

a nismo timing belt.

Now the workshop here in australia I'm getting them to do a baseline service,

is very skeptical of the documented kms and points to the timing belt state as

a sure indication the car has seem much more kms..

The picture is attached. You can faintly see the part number is present & correct.

The mechanic told me that since the printing was all but invisible, the car must

have done much more than the low mileage documented.

The last logged service was in 2006, 2 years ago, and at that point the car had

just 19,000. It has 27,000 now .. so despite being 7 years old it didn't accrue

much at least till 2006.

What do you reckon?

Is the timing belt state a revealing sign of kms? There is no cracking or other signs

of wear in this one, just the vanished printing..

[(B1) MR_fanny]

may sounds stupid but does the belt itself have the huge nismo logo on it at all to indicate that its the same belt as on the reciept. I did a quick google for a 34 nismo timing belt and its pretty darn obvious if it is actually one.

19k? on the clock? if its so that is rediculously low for a pre owned import in my opinion. got reciepts of the workshop that did work on it previously? Id give them a call and check their database for what work was done on the car. If its a properly organised workshop they should have it in their database.

If its a fresh import get the timing belt changed again anyways and a thorough walkthrough of the car for piece of mind.

[rcheli]

may sounds stupid but does the belt itself have the huge nismo logo on it at all to indicate that its the same belt as on the reciept. I did a quick google for a 34 nismo timing belt and its pretty darn obvious if it is actually one.

19k? on the clock? if its so that is rediculously low for a pre owned import in my opinion. got reciepts of the workshop that did work on it previously? Id give them a call and check their database for what work was done on the car. If its a properly organised workshop they should have it in their database.

If its a fresh import get the timing belt changed again anyways and a thorough walkthrough of the car for piece of mind.

we didn't look all around the belt but I am 99% sure it is the one that matches the receipt, as at that

time it got a bunch of nismo stuff, and by a very upstanding place in tokyo. Everything on the

belt is no longer visible as printing.. but you can still read it all at an angle to the light.

So i guess I'm just concerned about the undocumented interval from 2006 to now: that is the only way the

workshop here could be correct in estimating the belt had many more 10s of thousands of Ks under its belt.

the exhaust - also went on with the belt - looks pretty mint, the interior doesn't show wear..

just the idea that a belt doesn't lose its printing to the extent shown in the picture, until it is really

old, well that bothers me if its true. In that case someone went to a lot of trouble to make all the visible

bits look clean and new.. and just missed this one thing ..

If I ever get to pulling the head off it, are there any other tell tale signs of 80k+ miles?

edit: I see the picture in a nismo PDF - and yeah the NISMO is huge, printed twice, and

the whole thing with part number is on a totally white background. All of that color is gone

on my belt although where it was is in the pic I attached.

Edited November 20, 2008 by rcheli