An old Audi belt motor goes 240k and the belt is still holding. I had a 2013 A4 2.0 that stretched the ~~belt~~ chain* at 70k and the valves kissed the pistons.
My last car was an A4 with AMB engine and the recommended timing belt change interval according to maintenance booklet was at 110K, while at the local dealer they were trying to persuade everyone to change it at 80K. I did one myself at 104K and it was just the right time as I noticed it started to stretch.
The belt I installed by Continental had a warranty and it was fairly easy to install myself.
I changed my timing belt a month ago and my car had 111250Km and ten years young. First of all, I was amazed by the quality of the old timing belt, it was solid with no cracks at all.
There is no way to know without removing the cylinder head and posting pictures. Best case you can just replace the timing belt and any bent valves.
The belt was a brand new continental OEM belt with less than 50 miles on it.
Continental here. And I've changed the belt anout 3 times this year already.
On my TT, I did it every 50K miles. Had heard of failures and it seemed like cheap insurance ...
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