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I emailed my local VW dealer regarding this and they replied with this information:
Why is this not in the owner's manual or even the service manual? Madness.

CarbonChaos wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:10 pm A lot of the modern Ford 1.0 engines have a timing belt interval of 10 yrs or 150K and these belts are considerably narrower than the VW belts.

That said stuff does have a habit of breaking when you least want it

That's reassuring. The first part at least.

One explanation could be, VW Group intend that the cam belt in the EA211 generation of engines, and probably any newer versions of that engine family, it a "belt for life" - and as such, has not been included with other parts for periodic replacement.

Now that does not mean that it will last for ...

Hello all.

My girlfriend has just purchased a petrol 2018 VW Polo SE 1.0 TSI 95PS (does anyone know which engine code that is by the way?). I downloaded a workshop manual from TrueGear but this is what it says regarding the timing belt, or as VW call it, the "toothed belt":

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