How can u tell a timing belt is about to go bad?

How can you tell if a timing belt is going bad? what are the signs?How can u tell a timing belt is about to go bad?They should be changed a certain amount of miles as laid out in your owner's manual maintenance schedule. If you were to visually inspect the belt it should be smooth on the top, the teeth should be deep, and there sholud be no tears, cracks, or frayed pieces.How can u tell a timing belt is about to go bad?Agree, no behavioral way until it breaks.

You can only tell by inspection of the actual belt.



Change it according to the owner's manual or risk having a destroyed engine.