[qman]

There will be no warning sign. The belt will just break.

 

[qman]

[citation needed]

From Experience. Belt broke on wife's 1981 Mercury Lynx. Car ran perfectly fine and while I was sitting at a stoplight the engine died. Coincidentally, I had just read an article about timing belts about two weeks prior and the article said timing belts should be changed around 100,000 miles or so. My reaction was "This bad boy has 140,000 on it so we're good." After the engine died I tried to start it back up and the engine spun much more freely than normal. I knew instantly what was wrong, got out, stuck my hand inside the timing cover and pulled out the rattiest belt I had ever seen. I was shocked it worked until that very moment. The rubber gears were about 50% gone from the sucker and it was cracked everywhere. Hard rubber bits were crumbling off in my hand. The 81 Lynx was an interference engine so that was the end of her.

The belt isn't gonna squeal of squeak cuz it isn't gonna slip. Mom's drive belt broke on her 2007 Rav4 about 6 months ago with no warning whatsoever. No squeaks and no squeals.

 

[qman]

Not once have I heard of a Honda factory belt snapping

Me neither til about a few seconds ago

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Never said it was gonna fail. Just answered the question posed by the Discussion Starter.

 

[qman]

Oops

 

[qman]

What you said was there are not going to be any signs, which is just not definitively true. I'm sure a belt could just fail like that, but a good majority of the time it's not the case and there are some pretty clear warning signs.

Who cares about what your opinion on what may be "the majority of the time." What's worst case and can you give a better answer to the OP? If it can break with no warning signs then that is worst case and that is how he should proceed . . . in my opinion. LOL

 

[qman]

So there will never be a warning sign? Because that would not be true.

Correct