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Originally Posted by DNSB
From what I found in a quick search, the 2014 Chevy Cruze 1.4L has an interference engine (though given the usual accuracy on the Internet, I'd check this). If the timing is off, the engine can pretty much self-destruct. See Interference engine for a bit more information. |
Yes, exactly. Timing belts are blowing engines all over the place, due to inept or untrained mechanics, not only in Chevy Cruze's. This should have been commonplace knowledge
and your mechanic should have mentioned it, IF the engine were in bad shape to start with.
If the timing belt is not set up properly, then the pistons will run into the valve and destroy the head and the pistons.
I think you can easily show that it's entirely on them. I mean, if the engine was coated with oil, etc., in the first place, how the hell did the car GET there? PFM?
Hitch