Hello everyone, my name is Frank. Just joined.

I bought a 2012 Outback about 9 months ago from a dealer. I asked him if he knows if the timing belt was ever changed and he told me it had a timing chain. I did a little research and discovered it has a belt. When I bought it, it had about 89K miles on it. Now it has almost 110K on it. I was thinking of changing the belt myself because it didn't look to be too nasty a job, but just now, I removed the inspection cover and took a look at it. I can still read "SUBARU" on the belt, so I'm thinking the previous owner changed it at 80K or so.

Any thoughts or sugestions?

 

Hello buddy

 

Check it out, you may be right.

https://autopartsu.com/2020/12/03/inspect-your-serpentine-belt-for-wear/