Cambelt, Timing Chain, Leon Cupra 2009

[neilm]

Hi All,

First post !!!

Picking up my Leon Cupra 2009 on Thursday. After much searching on this site and the whole interweb cannot find the answer.

Does this engine have a Cambelt or timing chain & what are the service intervals for each?

On test drive dealer said was chain which I thought was surprising.

Car is 2009 on 59 plate and 42k miles on the clock.

Also on the rear drivers side brake disk there is a small groove that is a perfect circle round the whole disk, I have asked them to look at it but if they come back and say it is fine is this true?, both disk and pad are fine apart from this and I think that the pads compensate for the groove, any comments would be great.

Also on Thursday it means it's goodbye to my RS Twingo, nice little quick car but new baby means I have to be more practical (total kids = 3 now) , bought the Mrs a Zafira last week so she should be happy (unless she thinks 7 seats means room for 2 more). I am sure I can reason that now I will have 4 doors and three back seats and a boot that can fit more that Ross Kemp.

That's it for post one, thanks and good night (will stick around to see if there is a reply)

Neil
xxx

 

[mds1256]

Cupra is a Cambelt (replacement every 60k / 4year i believe)

Service is 1 year or 10k.

Mine also has a grove on one of the discs and mine is from where a stone got stuck and made a really high pitch squeel for around 5 seconds, I then stopped the car and pulled away again and all was fine. I looked at the disc after this happened and there was a groove in the disc. Not deep enough to replace to be honest and doesn't seem to affect the breaking.

 

[invisiblekid]

It's a cambelt.

Changes are 60k or 4 yrs. Although some dealers do suggest 40k or 4 yrs. Others have heard as much as 80k.

But 60k or 4 yrs I think is the general consensus.

 

[neilm]

Thanks for the replies, not sure why he thought it was a chain.

Do you think it's worth me pushing to get the disc replaced (i.e. would it fail mot) ?

neil
XXX

 

[EndlessNameless]

Thanks for the replies, not sure why he thought it was a chain.

I think some FL Leons have a chain. Kinda surprised the cupra doesn't, but there you go.

 

[mds1256]

Thanks for the replies, not sure why he thought it was a chain.

Do you think it's worth me pushing to get the disc replaced (i.e. would it fail mot) ?

neil
XXX

you can try, be better if it wasn't marked but like I say it hasn't affected my breaking that I can tell.

Shouldn't fail an MOT for a groove in the disc.

 

[LeonCR]

I think some FL Leons have a chain. Kinda surprised the cupra doesn't, but there you go.

FL fr is chain cupra is belt

 

[Deleted member 74601]

To be honest, VAG group cars are still the only cars I know still pumping out engines with cambelts. I was really surprised when I bought the 2010 1.6TDI.

Even my 57 plate corsa was a chain.

 

[LeonCR]

To be honest, VAG group cars are still the only cars I know still pumping out engines with cambelts. I was really surprised when I bought the 2010 1.6TDI.

Even my 57 plate corsa was a chain.

Not true I'm afraid

Astra vxr is belt for sure
So is golf r and scirocco r

 

[Deleted member 74601]

Not true I'm afraid

Astra vxr is belt for sure
So is golf r and scirocco r

Hence why I said VAG group cars.

 

[big rich]

Audi used do chains mainly on the bigger stuff (3.0tdi, 4.2 etc etc) but seem to have been working there way down for a while now, 1.4t, 1.2t, 1.8t, 2.0t all chains now, which is a shame cos you can get good money for changing belts

 

[LeonCR]

Hence why I said VAG group cars.

Sorry may bad for mentioning them thought you said SEAT's but my point still stands