Wet belts are a joke. First time I saw one was on a transit connect. What a stupid idea.
All part of chasing emissions.
They do help but should probably be changed about every 30k.
For a net 1% efficiency gain, it’s a massive joke like all the green nonsense.
Yes, it's absolutely daft.
The variable rate/vane oil pumps save about 1 bhp which helps its carbon footprint.
But I wonder how many million times it's outweighed by the resources necessary to rebuild tens of thousands of engines?
Also, spotted this on a frequently visited forum:
" We had five wet belt failures within the Ford warranty period which was 100,000 miles.
Serviced at Ford promptly when the message appeared, around 30.000m intervals!
We wanted to have more frequent oil changes but were told firmly that it would invalidate the warranty!
All failure occurred between 85 and 98K miles, unfortunately the replacement engines were only warranted until the vehicles had reached 100K miles.
Wet belts were due at 140K miles.
After kicking up a fuss because we lost the use of the vehicle for weeks whilst new engines were sourced and fitted, Ford HQ decided to switch to condition based service intervals.
Oil changes come up now between 5 and 7K miles and reliability improved.
However recently we have been plagued with AdBlue and DPF problems,, including the one previously mentioned that won!t come out of regen.
Currently have four out of eight vehicles out of action. "
