can a stone flicking up cause a new cambelt to break ?

"garage says sometimes they only last five minutes as a stone can damage them"

absolute tosh!

Concerned Parent
April 2010

there can be other factors that may cause cambelt failure, such as the tensioner failing or water pump bearing failure/seizure(if it's driven by the cam belt). do you know if new water pump & tensioners where fitted to the engine or swapped from the old engine?. in my experience, these items are not normally supplied with reconditioned engines.

jim
April 2010

thanks i thought it didnt sound right ,any idea why it would break so soon...

lorraine
April 2010

the cambelt should have covers fitted to stop this from happening.the chance of it happening is like winning the lottery!.Slim.think he is trying it on

Steve
April 2010