Timing belt breaking

[Turks]

My aunt got a letter from Citroen to say that there was recall on faulty timing belts breaking. She took the car down for inspection and Citroen said the belt was ok. Within 3 weeks the belt snapped and wrecked the engine. The Citroen garage she bought the car through and that inspected the belt said it’s nothing to do with them and tough basically. Does she have a case against them? Thanks

 

[Woodcutter]

Common issue on the 1.6hdi engines.

We had one of our vans go, Citroen would only cover replacing the actual belt, no tensioners, water pump or cam that also needed replaced.

I would change every 60k miles or 3 years whichever comes first.

How many miles were on it and had the belt ever been done before?

 

[Turks]

Common issue on the 1.6hdi engines.

We had one of our vans go, Citroen would only cover replacing the actual belt, no tensioners, water pump or cam that also needed replaced.

I would change every 60k miles or 3 years whichever comes first.

How many miles were on it and had the belt ever been done before?

I’m not sure to be honest, I’m only getting second hand information from my dad.

 

[Yogi]

Family member has a 2018 Peugeot 3008 HDi broke the timing belt @ 49k 3 weeks out of warranty. Peugeot replaced the complete engine.

 

[Turks]

Not that many will be interested. An update 7 months with solicitors fighting and an engineer report the report also stated that there’s 13000 of them with the same fault. Citroen have accepted responsibility and are going to sort the car.

 

[Nicky]

Not that many will be interested. An update 7 months with solicitors fighting and an engineer report the report also stated that there’s 13000 of them with the same fault. Citroen have accepted responsibility and are going to sort the car.

Lengthy process, but a great result for your aunt.

 

[Turks]

Lengthy process, but a great result for your aunt.

Definitely, she was getting really annoyed about the whole thing to be honest. The only save and grace she had was my dad lent her his car in between times. But now she’s getting a courtesy car until sorted.

 

[saxo_man]

Not that many will be interested. An update 7 months with solicitors fighting and an engineer report the report also stated that there’s 13000 of them with the same fault. Citroen have accepted responsibility and are going to sort the car.

Great result. Always like it when forum users come back and update a thread

 

[Dervhead]

Great result. Always like it when forum users come back and update a thread

Especially a good news update