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[Big_Mart]

Right may be you guys can help? Have worked at a Vx stealers for years but funny anough only ever done cambelts on 2.5 and 3.0 which we all know have the 40k/4year interval. I have bought myself a 2.6 MV6 MY01 with 42k on the clock and when i looked on vauxhall T.I.S system it told me the interval on the 2.6 is 80k or 8years this i found hard to believe so i looked  in the service book this said the same i then looked on autodata 2007 that said 40k or 4years for 2.6 i then phoned another dealer and they said 40k or 4years so which is it???

[tunnie]

4 years or 40K WITHOUT FAIL.

Same for 2.0/2.2

[Entwood]

AFAIK the original interval was 80K on all Omegas .. this was changed about 4 years ago I think to 4 years/40K due to the number of failures. It is NOT the belt that fails .. but the tensioner .. however when that lets go the whole thing gets out-of-synch and mostly will require a minimum of a head rebuild and possibly a complete engine... eitherway .. darned expensive !!

4 years / 40K  ... definately  

[tunnie]

forgot to add you must use a locking kit

[Big_Mart]

Got the full locking kit and cambelt kit in the boot thats not a worry and i know the problem was with the tensioner/idlers on the older lumps but why haven`t vauxhall corrected there information as all the software versions are the latest available it even said 8years 80k on menu pricing for *uck sake.it mentions the earlier cars being 40k or 4yrs though???
Now it looks like i`ll be doing the belt tommorow then instead of going down the pub boo hoo..

[tunnie]

better safe than sorry!

[TheBoy]

It is 40k/4yr on all Omega Cambelts.  Vx docs all over the place on it.

Vx found that they were having too many warranty failures on 80k cambelts so lowered to 40k.  Then to please fleet market, knocked back up to 80k (along with the engine damaging 20k service inteval), thinking the extra dosh gained by not pissing off the fleet managers would cover the extra warranty claims.

So, like the 20k oil change, ignore any reference to 80k cambelt changes.

[Big_Mart]

Cheers The Boy! Why they can`t make there minds up and stick with it i don`t know??
Technical told me the other week they don`t have any problems with timing chains either when i told him how many i`d done on corsa`s vectra`s etc he sounded suprized no wonder why some vauxhall dealers strugle to gain the correct info!!!!  

[Richard A]

Full Cam belt kit a must every 40k, oil & filter 5k or 6 months, if you are a private owner !  
regards
richard

[Big_Mart]

Cam belt kit done 2hours 42mins dead much easiers than 2.5 less crap in the way did oil + filter to now can go out and give a good trashing.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Cam belt kit done 2hours 42mins dead much easiers than 2.5 less crap in the way did oil + filter to now can go out and give a good trashing.

What took you so long.... 8-)

[Andy B]

Cam belt kit done 2hours 42mins dead much easiers than 2.5 less crap in the way did oil + filter to now can go out and give a good trashing.

What took you so long.... 8-)

When I did mine, about 30 000 miles ago, it took me about 3 days! I had trouble mustering the enthusiasm to finish the job!

[tunnie]

Cam belt kit done 2hours 42mins dead much easiers than 2.5 less crap in the way did oil + filter to now can go out and give a good trashing.

What took you so long.... 8-)

When I did mine, about 30 000 miles ago, it took me about 3 days! I had trouble mustering the enthusiasm to finish the job!

What we all forget is MarkDTM is not acutally human.... he is a machine!    

[Marks DTM Calib]

Cam belt kit done 2hours 42mins dead much easiers than 2.5 less crap in the way did oil + filter to now can go out and give a good trashing.

What took you so long.... 8-)

When I did mine, about 30 000 miles ago, it took me about 3 days! I had trouble mustering the enthusiasm to finish the job!

What we all forget is MarkDTM is not acutally human.... he is a machine!    

Even Gm give 2.2 hours which is generous and includes fetching the car into the workshop.

[chrisdb]

Cam belt kit done 2hours 42mins dead much easiers than 2.5 less crap in the way did oil + filter to now can go out and give a good trashing.

What took you so long.... 8-)

When I did mine, about 30 000 miles ago, it took me about 3 days! I had trouble mustering the enthusiasm to finish the job!

What we all forget is MarkDTM is not acutally human.... he is a machine!    

Even Gm give 2.2 hours which is generous and includes fetching the car into the workshop.

Mine took a couple of days, then, another couple of days.... and it was -1 degrees!!