Automotive

and ask me to look at his XC70 he bought a month ago. It just stops, can you see what is wrong with it. So I take a look and send him this pic. Now his is not so happy longer because the seller told him the belt was changed not long time ago. ...  

so at the moment my customer discuss it with the seller. The repair cost is maybe 75% of the cars value so I guess it goes to the junk yard.

My car have a chain, so i have no worries. Honda. Know, Mercedes use also chains.

they make sure I can buy another watch, chains not make me rich. 🤣🤣🤣

My car mechanic friend always say: “whatever rotates, breaks”. ...  

You know this, but i want to share a belt story i had with my Volkswagen Bora. The car was a good car. Changing a belt was highly expensive. For european wps friends i tell a price in euro i had to pay for a belt change. Why it was so expensive- €850,— ea...  

ask some N47 owners what they think😂😂😂 But u ve right in perfect world a chain is forever

so long people don't do longlife service and change oil at 15000km will there be no problems. If they change at 30000km the chain will break.

Hey Jocke, great technical car info you share! I am a dream for the car makers i think. I bring my car each 15000km for servicing. Why not 20.000km? Thats because i use my car, and sometimes i think it is a sports car and have fun hitting the throttle. An... 

there s no oil which good for 30k ,even the manufacturers know that however the carbon footprint includes the emission,etc and the service too , longer service interval less penalty for the car manufacturers that s the reason they ve introduced the LongLi... 

I know LL from Volkswagen. Never understood why you should drive so long without bringing the car for service. Everything which get good service works longer and better. For example a watch which see a great watch service center on time, stay accurate. Sa... 

I saw a video of a BMW 1 serie with a chain problem. Many strange noises came out from the engine bay. The engine is in-line build in do rwd, the chain is at the fire board side. If BMW tackle the problem with the current model, i do not know. You say the... 

but the 3.0L diesel had the same problem , as Jocke said LL service for these recently released TBs is death sentence...

that they wait - and wait even a little longer - and then it is too late. I got a Ford Mondeo for my wife from a friend with a replacement engine - for close to nothing. The previous owner had neglected the change interval - his loss, my gain. ...  

Smart purchase. Always good to know about car technics. Even a Ford is a good and great car as the service recommendations followed up. For example my aunt drove a 16 year old Renault Twingo which was as new, because an owner handles with care.

If a car is serviced as per the maintenance schedule and intervals etc. then neither belt nor chain should break. It’s usually the result of poor or no maintenance

So my nephew show his Mercedes. This car could be better if it had receive more love. Today my nephew is happy with another C klasse. ...  

here I change belt, support wheels and water pump on a Audi A4. ...  

You can buy more beautiful watches. When an Audi driver complain about high service costs, an answer could be, - never heard of Mercedes Benz? Mercedes, is not cheap, we know, but in my opinion far better then the cars from Ingolstad.

On my newer Lotus I have 47,000 miles and the cambelt interval is 60,000 -- I am taking a chance by not changing it yet but I like to live dangerously, and my car is driven pretty easy and maintained. In theory the belt can be changed without taking the w...  

so I will nat say it is a common problem.

This is my 6th one and I have never had to change one. Including one I ran for 350,000 miles, before it was lost in a accident. The 4.0 liter straight six is a bulletproof motor. ...  

Car manufacturers use belts, and other car manufacturers use chains. Jocke told us why many chose belts. Chains are when the service is correctly followed by the schedule, bullet proof. The people who are against chains say, chains make noise, so it is no... 

As I just got a belt job done on my alfa multiair, including water pump and tensioner. Yes it's more expensive than a chain and I did it at 8yrs/50k km but I track my car and this little thing brings me so much joy that on a smile per mile ratio it's comp...