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There is no specified replacement interval for the pullies, but perhaps for the belt. Is the 60K described in your service book?
Folks who hang around here know that at 60K belt and pull[y|ies] should be replaced as tow truck preventative.
There is no service interval for the chains. One could say that the service interval is determined by what oil is used and the oil change intervals etc.
You can ask the dealer for service info, such as belts and pullies so that you can take appropriate preventive maintenance measures. Or ask that they review the service records and make recommendations. Some dealers will provide records, some will not.
If the belt is new, you should be able to see that it looks new. Seeing that the pully looks new would be an other story. Don't know if your vehcile was built with the short belt or not, but if replaced by the dealer should then be short belt now. If you can see that there is a lower idler pulley that is not been used now, that means that this is not the orginal belt.
Get some loctite blue for the DIC screws, and re-tighen the VC screws, some will probably be loose. The one on the corner near the battery seems to be the one that more often loose from the factory. You need to remove DIC to get at them all. You will need a T40 torx bit for this.
Suggest M1 0W40... hard to find now. M1 5W40 (Truck and SUV) is an excellent choice for the 03 production. 2004+ production has a stated requirement in the manuals which basically states that you must use M1 0W40. Nothing in the engine changed, just a longer service interval. You do not want to use the factory service intervals, change more often than that. Purolator PureOne PL10241 is a very good filter. Clean injectors now with Techron Concentrate and every 8K or 3X/year.
Almost everyone here will agree that factory specified service intervals are nothing more than bare miniums as best and a recipe for disaster at worst. Saab changes from 10K dealer free service to 15K dealer free service. So they only have to now pay for two free srvices instead of three. So was this the motive behind the extended intervals? What was there motive? Well, we all agree that is it not in any way optimal for the life of the engine. But if the engine does not fail in the warranty period, they don't care. There determination of an engine problem is clunking and rattling in the extended sludge warranty. An engine can have a loss of compression and still run smooth.
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