Is it possible?

[kruci99]

My sister crashed her 98 Spyder's(4g64) front a little while ago. The car was not in good shape and she though they would total it , but the insurance company didn't. They told her the bill was more than $4000 to fix! She is driving the car now and it is like new!

Anyway she hasn't changed her timing belt (or in fact anything else;she is just driving) ever and the car has almost 100 000 miles, so she was thinking is that maybe when the crash happened something happened with the timing belt and they had to change it, therefore costing the ins. company the money.

Do you guys think a hard crash can make a timing belt rip or skip and killing the engine?
How about the water pump?
If not possible then she is in danger of losing the car any moment now!
I have been telling her to do the timing belt job anyway, but she is like: :I am busy, cant do it right now"

So whatcha think?

 

[MMM]

First off, I am from Arlington Heights WHAAAZUP? haha anyway
The likely hood of the timing belt skipping a destorying the motor is slim. I talked to my buddy at a body shop and he said he has never seen it happen. It is possible that the crash desroyed the timing cover, in which case, the bodyshop should have changed the timing belt.

Pull the top half of the timing cover off. It should be VERY obvious if the timing belt has been changed within the last 5K vs the last 100k.

 

[Snobordin8]

Just call whoever fixed her car and ask them. If there wasn't anything wrong with the motor then chances are they didn't change it.

 

[ALLBoostAWD]

Get a recipt from the people who fixed it. Then if you sell the car and a carfax report is pulled you can show the new buyer what was replaced in that accident. Keeping recipts to a maintenance, upgrade, or body work is a must.

 

[kruci99]

Yes thank you guys! I agree you should always keep a record of what was changed, but hey not a lot of girls do it, and really doubt she is going to go back to the shop after more than a year and plus she had a baby and right now she is cruising in a Navigator(a gas guzzler) so she might be selling the eclipse!

Whazzup MMM! Yeah I will check the cover and see if that will tell me anything!