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Originally Posted by Ryland
I've seen VW timing belts fail, but on a VW a lot of things fail, so I'd never base my failure rate of other vehicles off what VW has had happen.
I've only seen one Honda Civic timing belt fail and that was with around 140,000 miles on it and over 20 years old, other timing belts that I've pulled off that were 25 years old with just over 100,000 miles on them still looked great and there are enough other people on here with Honda's that are 20 to 30 years old that if timing belts were failing because of aged rubber someone would be talking about it, but even when I'd read the Civic and CRX racing forums it was rare to have happen.
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Agree, one doesn't translate to the other fully, and while the OP was discussing a honda, the generalities were painting a rose colored picture, which isn't always so. Timing belt fail is an extremely common problem