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Old 01-17-2009, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by mel23816
What makes me wonder is that it sounds different. I wonder what it sounds like if the timing belt is shut.
Well, if you have an X5 (you don't say in your profile), then you don't have one, your engine has a timing chain. I know the sound an engine makes when a rubber timing belt breaks, essentially no compression. Not possible in this case, and it is unlikely that a timing chain breaks.

You need a proper diagnosis, and it is a little hard to do it over the web with such little information.
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