# About replacing timing belt

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/about-replacing-timing-belt/153849>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [December 1, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/about-replacing-timing-belt/153849 "2019-12-01T08:54:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![karlsultana8\_148365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@karlsultana8\_148365](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karlsultana8_148365)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/about-replacing-timing-belt/153849/1 "2019-12-01T08:54:58Z")

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Hi,

In the “Maintenance” section of my manual there’s nothing about timing or drive belts. I have suzuki swift 2015, automatic, 30,000km, do you perhaps know when I should change the timing belt?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/about-replacing-timing-belt/153849/2 "2019-12-01T13:42:22Z")

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There is nothing in the manual about a timing belt because you have a timing chain.

As far as the accessory belts, replace them when they are worn, oily or cracked.

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**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/about-replacing-timing-belt/153849/3 "2019-12-01T19:02:41Z")

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> [@Mustangman](#):
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> replace them when they are worn, oily or cracked.

The new EPDM belts don’t chunk, split, or crack like the old neoprene belts

So you can’t tell if a belt requires replacement just by looking at it.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wRznjS03eoQ?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque

Tester

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**Author:** ![karlsultana8\_148365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@karlsultana8\_148365](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karlsultana8_148365)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/about-replacing-timing-belt/153849/4 "2019-12-02T15:49:45Z")

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If I have a timing change doesn’t that needs to be replaced too? Manual says nothing about that neither.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/about-replacing-timing-belt/153849/5 "2019-12-02T15:54:51Z")

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> [@karlsultana8\_148365](#):
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> If I have a timing change doesn’t that needs to be replaced too?

It gets replaced only when necessary. It might go 200,000 km or more. Stop worrying about this.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/about-replacing-timing-belt/153849/6 "2019-12-02T17:01:58Z")

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> [@karlsultana8\_148365](#):
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> If I have a timing change doesn’t that needs to be replaced too?

In the **first** reply that you received, Mustangman correctly advised you that you don’t have a timing belt:

> [@Mustangman](#):
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> There is nothing in the manual about a timing belt because you have a timing chain.

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