stalling Magentis

[maria78]

I have a Magnetis dat haz 88k miles on it! One day I was driving it to muh office n it suddenly stalled..in de same manner when a car shuts off abruptly ven its timing belt breaks off…Grrr.. do u think its de timing belt dat has sumthing wrong or is it something more complicated??

[KiaSabe]

Originally posted by maria78@Aug 17 2004, 12:41 AM
I have a Magnetis dat haz 88k miles on it! One day I was driving it to muh office n it suddenly stalled..in de same manner when a car shuts off abruptly ven its timing belt breaks off…Grrr.. do u think its de timing belt dat has sumthing wrong or is it something more complicated??

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I have 71000 miles on my optima (magentis) and the max rating on the timing belts are 30000 miles. BOTH belts can be changed with the motor still in the car, at least the 2.4L 4 cyl, but its not fun...

[hattee]

Wow 88,000 miles (140,000km) is almost double the recommended life for Optima timing belt. Kia literature says 80,000km.