Andrew-the 3.5 has a belt-i changed mine at 90k-think the factory called for 100k change-i was not about to take a chance as the 3.5 is an interference engine--myself i have done a lot of research and found that a lot of the rap that these cars get are because of dis honest repair shops selling you repairs that are not needed and once a car gets a rep. for a certain item the shops jump on it -one sure way to stop this is to ask for a written pre-estimate at which point the dis honest guys will either say -well we need to look into this a little more-or tell you that they will not do the writing part-i have no problem turning in a dis-honest shop to the DMV. I was really not responding to your reply -but to the comment on the intrepid in general.-as i belong to a lot of groups and it is very easy to drop out with out asking for help Wished i could help you out on that -but have no experience with the 2.7-and i have been a member for a long time -but my interest lies in the itself and not so much the engine--cheers -suzukimx
________________________________ From: Andrew <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, July 20, 2011 7:44:06 AM Subject: [dodge_intrepid] Re: 2001 2.7 Engine Drive Chain - 190K KM (120K miles) should I change it? Hey, Ozzietron and suzukimx45, thanks for your info on this and thank you very much for the time your took to respond to my posting. I really don't want to offend anyone here, but I'm just trying to get at whether the timing chain going on the 2.7 as a group is really an endemic problem because that's what I need to make my decision on, not on whether one person has had this happen. Mine hasn't broken and I need to assess the likelihood of it happening and that decision has to be based on how prevalent this problem is in 2.7's. If we made decisions on getting stuff changed based on whether one person had suffered any particular problem our cars would be in the garage all the time, right? Also, cars can get an unwarranted overall reputation based on what happened to a few rightly infuriated users, we all know that. So maybe long time users of the forum might have seen a disproportionate number of postings along the lines that "my 2.7's timing chain broke!" Andrew [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Web: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dodge_intrepid> Subscribe: <mailto://[email protected]> Unsubscribe: <mailto://[email protected]> Moderator: <mailto://[email protected]>Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dodge_intrepid/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dodge_intrepid/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
