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Automotive Tips from Tuffy Grand Haven: Timing Belt Overview

October 31, 2017

In your engine, valves over each combustion chamber open to allow fresh air in, close during the combustion event, and then other valves open to let out the exhaust. All of this happens over and over thousands of times a minute when you are driving around Grand Haven . The timing belt’s important job is to make sure that all of this happens as it should – at precisely the right time. If the timing is off, your engine won’t run efficiently or maybe not at all – so a good timing belt is important. If it should break, you could end up at Tuffy Grand Haven with expensive engine damage.

Ask your friendly and professional Tuffy Grand Haven service advisor when your timing belt is scheduled for replacement.

Give us a call.

Tuffy Grand Haven
435 N. Beacon Blvd.
Grand Haven , Michigan 49417
616.844.5557

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