So i was driving down the highway and my car just turned off. I turned the key but nothing. My lights were on and everything. I took it to a repair guy and he told me that the timing belt was broken, so i paid to have it fixed. Then he told me something about a compressioner or something, i paid for that, then he told me the valve was bent, so i was pissed and said i wouldn't pay. He was going to charge me about 550. I had already paid him about 250. and i think he was scamming me was I wrong? Does that sound right? Also how would I go about fixing?
check to see if the motor is a no-tolerance engine. You would bend a valve if you broke a timing belt. This is why Honda, Mitsubishi, and many others warn you to change the timing belt at about 60-75K miles. $250.00 for a timing belt installed is on the low side for cost.Call a dealer for the make of car and ask the service manager if the motor is a no-tolerance engine. If it is you will have more cost before the motor is running.
if ur timing belt cuts off on the highway then one or more of your valves will be bent and its realy expensive to fix and if fixed engine wont be the same happend to my friends accord so the best thing you do is get a new engine and have instaled,, go to spanish mechanic they fix good for realy cheap
What kind of car do you have, and what engine? A broken timing belt *can* lead to a bent valve, but only if the engine is an interference design.
Brakes are a device used to give up action, typically by friction. So i anticipate you're asking if the timing belt breaks... and the answer is definite, with a providing thrown in for sturdy degree. In some engines, there is room adequate to the piston to be on the very properly and the valves to be open, if others (regularly happening as 0 clearance engines) even as the piston is on the properly, the valves had perfect to closed because there is 0 room in the different case. they could bend, yet what typically occurs is the piston will hit the open valve and get a hollow in it. both way, bend or ruin, you're searching at a really expensive restore, it really is why they propose the timing belt get replaced after a particular kind of miles.
If a valve's bent, the cylinder head has to come off, fairly involved job. It's highly possible he didn't know the valve was bent until after the belt was changed. Get a second opinion, but $550 is not that bad.
