Does your car have the 1.7l 4 cylinder. If it does, the answer is absolutely. This engine is lovingly referred to as an “Interference” engine. What this means is that when the belt snaps the valves and the pistons crash into each other and the engine gets trashed. How do I know this. Simple, my son refused to take his “old Man’s” advice and didn’t get the belt replaced on his Passat (uses the same engine) and the belt snap while he was tooling down the highway at about 85 mph. When it was all over it costs almost $7,000.00 to replace the engine. The $1,000.00 is short money.
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