hello all. can anyone help me with locating the air pollen filter on an 02 1600 astra club? also the car has done 17,000 genuine miles from new. do I change the cam belt or wait until a higher mileage? thanks in anticipation Paul
I've changed the pollen filter. It's easy to change - undo the torx screws holding the glove box in - take the glove box out and the filter is on the bottom right hand side. When looking at the filter you see the left hand side of it - undo the clips and pull it out - simple. For the cam belt Vauxhall say 80k miles or 8 years, Haynes says 40k miles or 4 years- so uve loads of miles left..
That's quite a difference. And Haynes wouldn't benefit significantly from a cambelt being changed early. I wonder what attitude Vauxhall would take if a cambelt failed at, say, 75,000 miles (on a well maintained vehicle with no other complicating factors involved). I assume cambelt failure on this engine means serious damage to its internals, so it's not trivial matter. (Seems to be a standard figure for a range of their vehicles.)
It's fair to say that a number of the original 80k intervals have been revised by GM to 40k. For the price of it, I wouldn't take the risk. 4 years, 40k miles.
