Guys,
Just need your advice on something that is VW released but not to a Golf. Sorry didn't know where else to post this and I trust the people on this forum much more than any stealer
My Wife purchased brand new in 2006 a VW Polo 1.4 FSI Sport. It's the 9N3 model fitted with the AXU FSI engine. (see crappy phone picture below)
My question is this. When it recently had it's MOT a few weeks ago, the stealer that did it gave us a advisory that according to their records the car had never had a cambelt change, and although it's only done 25K miles, it is now 4 years old, and apparently VW recommend the cambelt at 4 years intervals. They even gave me a price of £295.00 to do the work.
I always ring around to get the best price for this sort of work, and rang another fairly local stealer (who to be fair has done some pretty good servicing work on both the Polo and my Golf GT). They said that according to their records, my wife's car is fitted with a timing chain, and NOT a timing belt, therefore there's nothing to change. the timing chains are only replaced if they are faulty (which apparently is very uncommon).
Who is right, and how if it does only have a timing chain, did my local stealer manange to give me a price (or is that the reason they are called stealers ?)
Cheers
Andrew
