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Just wondering if someone here might be able to help me please.  I have just bought an ex-Japan Gti, registered in 2006 and now 60,000 miles, and I'm not sure what to do about the cambelt - (I'm well aware of all the various arguments and opinions on this topic, especially as I was doing work for Volkswagen Group, 2003-09).  My car has got quite a lot of service history documentation, but, naturally, it's all in Japanese.  In particular I've 4 service invoices and I'm hoping there might be a member here who speaks Japanese and who might kindly have a look at them and tell me if there's any mention of a cambelt change having been carried out?

Any direct help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

David.

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Having had no responses on this - it was a long shot - I have been delving into things with the help of Google and suchlike.  As a result I have been able to identify the cambelt field on the standard Volkswagen service sheets used in Japan.  So, just in case anyone else has the same query on a car into UK from Japan, I'm attaching a scan of the area of the sheet in which to look for an entry.

 

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Shouldn’t the chassis number have worldwide service info on it? So you can go into any dealer with the vin and see what comes up? I know you could with bmw. And merc do it too.

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VW UK won't have any info on an imported car, the service history isn't a worldwide thing. VW don't even recognise or keep info on cars registered before 2001 on the service history database anymore!

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On 6/15/2018 at 4:29 PM, davy26 said:

Just wondering if someone here might be able to help me please.  I have just bought an ex-Japan Gti, registered in 2006 and now 60,000 miles, and I'm not sure what to do about the cambelt - (I'm well aware of all the various arguments and opinions on this topic, especially as I was doing work for Volkswagen Group, 2003-09).  My car has got quite a lot of service history documentation, but, naturally, it's all in Japanese.  In particular I've 4 service invoices and I'm hoping there might be a member here who speaks Japanese and who might kindly have a look at them and tell me if there's any mention of a cambelt change having been carried out?

Any direct help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

David.

Change it.

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1 hour ago, lupogtiboy said:

VW UK won't have any info on an imported car, the service history isn't a worldwide thing. VW don't even recognise or keep info on cars registered before 2001 on the service history database anymore!

That’s flippin ridiculous!

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45 minutes ago, davy26 said:

Thanks, and yes, I came to that view and booked it in yesterday.

No other option. Playing cambelt roulette is fine on a ratty old 1.0 or SDI or an old banger, but not on a GTI.

Anyway, GTI's are going up in value right now. It'll pay for itself ;) 

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The other option is to contact the supplying dealer in the UK who imported the car, more often than not they do a cambelt and water pump before sale (to cover them more than anything), they should have a record of this. I know my Japanese Import GTi had a cambelt and water pump kit fitted before it was sold, and that particular dealer does it on all of their imported cars.

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