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Can do it yourself...
Posted by Dan s (more from Dan s) on Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:00:50
In Reply to: VW timing belt on 3.0 V6?, Brian, Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:18:37
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I've done this service myself and it was a lot of work but was entirely do-able. The best thing to do is to buy a kit that includes all of the necessary parts and there is one place in particular that will also rent you the mandatory special tools to complete the job successfully. As far as the milage is concerned, do NOT wait until 105k to do the service. VW now recommends that it be perfomed at 60k. A complete kit will run about $500 and will include the belt, tensioner, rollers, water pump, thermstat, coolant, serpentine belt, and all of the seals and such that are might-as-wells. Indeed the service will run about $1100-$1500 to have it done. Usually it's not the belt that fails but rather the bearing on a tensioner or a roller or the water pump that siezes and takes the timing belt with it.
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