just to let anyone know - I have the 2003 180
cupra, the engine is that from a golf GTi just tuned higher. Therefore the cambelts life is over 100k. However they do suffer with water pump failures much earlier on which will obviously lead to the inevitable. I recently heard of a pump going at 43k. But i'd imagine they were ragging the car alot.
Anyway if anyone knows of a place to get carbon fibre mirror caps, let me know. Or perhaps a company that does custom produce etc.
you've been ill informed mate, its not a golf gti engine, the golf Mk4 and leon
cupra 180 use the same chassis, so the engine is identical (anniversary 180 golf) the 150 Ko3 turbo'd was also used but not as a 150 in the leon ,
if you run a cambelt to 100k you're a fool, all 20 valves of the 1.8t are run off one cam sprocket to a transfer chain at the other end of the exhaust cam, so under more load than a conventional double over head cam engine which would have two cam sprockets for inlet and exhaust
i changed my 180 lc 2003 belt last year with 36k on the clock and it was knackered, dont risk it, a 3rd party company also manufactured a metal impellor waterpump which was an upgrade to the VAG plastic one,
use search mate, A lot of SCN members are an oracle of knowledge, this has been covered god knows how many times