Hi guys,
I have potentially amajor problem, I have a mazda6 diesel, mileage 73K, and it's 4 years old, the other daydriving to work the Cam belt shreaded, black smoke coming out the back, so now i face losing the car if the engine is totally knackered, i've only had this for 4 months, the garage i bought it from only supply a 3 month warranty (have to by law), i did buy a years warranty from WMS but they only cover £1000 per claim and i get the feeling they will worm out of paying towards this if they can.
Any ideas, and burning the car isn't an option now
Cheers for any replies

 

So long as it's just the cam belt and the motor isn't an interference engine, there shouldn't be anything else wrong with it. I believe US conversion lbs/$ is 0.6/$, so $1600 seems high to me for that repair. We don't have the diesel here in the states (wish we did), but I would think it isn't terribly hard to get down to the cam cover. They should just need to re-time the motor and reinstall the belt, cover and any accesories they needed to pull to get down to the engine.