Hello,
I was driving down the street last week and my car stalled on me in traffic. When I got it home I conducted a series of tests to find the problem. I plugged a obd reader in the car and a p1383 code popped up. I decided to finally look at the belt after various other attempts to fix the problem of crank and no start. I noticed that my timing belt was half way off the pullies and was very loose. I'm not sure if it was broke because I couldn't take the timing belt guard off to get to the belt because of the motor mount. I called multiple shops to get a estimate. I was told since I have dohc that most likely my heads are damaged. I was under the impression that my engine is a non interference motor. So estimates were from 700 without head damage to fix timing belt or 1400 to fix heads and timing belt.
I was driving down the street last week and my car stalled on me in traffic. When I got it home I conducted a series of tests to find the problem. I plugged a obd reader in the car and a p1383 code popped up. I decided to finally look at the belt after various other attempts to fix the problem of crank and no start. I noticed that my timing belt was half way off the pullies and was very loose. I'm not sure if it was broke because I couldn't take the timing belt guard off to get to the belt because of the motor mount. I called multiple shops to get a estimate. I was told since I have dohc that most likely my heads are damaged. I was under the impression that my engine is a non interference motor. So estimates were from 700 without head damage to fix timing belt or 1400 to fix heads and timing belt.