| Premature failure of a rubber timing belt can easily | | | | their odometers illegally turned back and |
| cost two or three thousand dollars of repairs, | | | | suggested consumers avoid buying off-lease |
| possibly including a new engine. Therefore knowing | | | | (used) cars, or leasing used cars having uncertain |
| the true mileage of a used car is imperative. Off | | | | mileage. If the cars really had 50,000 miles, and |
| lease Cars having 4 or 6 cyl. engines may have | | | | the odometer read 30,000, then the timing belts |
| rubber timing belts and should be avoided.Be | | | | would fail long before the new owners expected |
| warnedFive years ago an international oil company | | | | them to fail. |
| survey found that 50% of off-lease cars had | | | | |