I had a 1991 Civic. At 105,000 miles, the timing belt broke while we were driving. I pulled off to the side of the road and just to make sure to do the worst thing I possibly could do, I then cranked ...

The timing belt or chain sits at the center of an engine’s rhythm, quietly keeping pistons and valves in sync. When it fails, ...

I had a 1991 Civic. At 105,000 miles, the timing belt broke while we were driving. I pulled off to the side of the road -- the cold, dark, middle-of-nowhere, Indiana road -- and just to make sure to ...

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DEAR CAR TALK: I bought a 2009 Hyundai Accent new back in the day. Today it has 77,000 miles on it. I knew it was time to change the timing belt, but that's not cheap, so I put it off thinking I could ...

Your car's internal combustion engine requires a massive amount of individual parts to make it run. From the tiniest nuts and bolts to hulking crankshafts and engine blocks, modern motors are composed ...

It really doesn’t matter how fast you’re driving when a timing chain or timing belt breaks. If the engine is an interference design, then this failure has possibly turned the rest of the engine to ...

A wet timing belt is similar to a traditional timing belt, although in this instance, it actually sits inside the engine and is run in an oil bath. Much like a typical belt, wet timing belts are made ...

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We must first understand what each of these two systems does for a car. They both serve the same purpose, which is to coordinate the movement of the crankshaft as well as the camshaft(s) so that the ...

I had a 1991 Civic. At 105,000 miles, the timing belt broke while we were driving. I pulled off to the side of the road — the cold, dark, middle-of-nowhere, Indiana road — and just to make sure to do ...

I had a 1991 Civic. At 105,000 miles, the timing belt broke while we were driving. I pulled off to the side of the road — the cold, dark, middle-of-nowhere, Indiana road — and just to make sure to do ...