V70: Engine What is the longest surviving cam belt?!?!

[Zebster]

Originally Posted by V70greg

I suspect that not all cars went up and down the motor way like mine and the ones used for the school and shopping run were not lasting he 144k miles. Therefore, Volvo needed to drop the interval to the more general one of 90k meaning perfectly good belts from nearly exclusive motorway use are now being changed.

Only my guess though

Perhaps, but hard to see how you'd get up to 90k miles - even within the 10-year 'catch all' limit - just doing the school and shopping runs?

Volvo now include the VEA belt change as part of the 5-year service, based on the spurious logic that the 'annual' service interval is 18k miles. However mine had its service number 5 a few years ago while the quoted belt replacement interval was 144k miles (so was then a service number 8 task) therefore mine also slipped through the net. I was expecting my dealership to nag me about the 'missing' belt change at the last service (Feb '20) but they did not mention it... so I then asked and was told 'it's 144k/10 years', so there is some confusion!