All,

My cambelt broke while driving at 70MPH on the motorway last night. Firstly it's a pretty scary experience and considering my Golf MK4 has only done 30,000 miles very unexpected.

I've just spoken to VW UK customer services and they have left me feeling literally sick. They aren't interested in my case because my car was not serviced within 12 months of the last service eventhough it has just surpassed the required mileage service.

Apparently they informed the retailers in August 05 that the cambelt must now be changed after 4 years or 60 000 miles. Eventhough my car was serviced by a VW dealer after 4 years this was before August 05. I asked why they had not made any attempt to inform the general public and the said informing the retailers/delears was enough from their point of view. I have informed watchdog so hopefully this will be brough to the publics attention in due course. In the interim I hope that I can get this information to as many people as possible to prevent the huge cost that I'm about to endure of possible having to replace the engine.

If anyone knows of any other forums or notice boards it would be worthwhile posting this info, please do. VW could make a killing out of cambelt popping all over the country just because they didn't think it neccessary to make any attempt to inform the VW owners.