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Old 30-05-2008   #12 (Post Link)
johnp
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Re: Timing belt vs timing chain

The old Saab engines (up to a couple of years ago) all had timing chains. I had a poverty spec 9000 which did over 200k miles on it's original chain and ran very strongly into the scrap yard... Turbos tended to need a chain somewhere around 100K miles but they were hauling around 2 tonnes of singleminded Swedish engineering with a 230hp 2.3 litre engine....

From memory a new chain was upto £700...

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John
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