hello its me again,sorry to be a bit ignorant but i really have not had chance to look under the bonnet yet,are the 3.0litre engine cams belt driven or chain driven?.i ask this because my last car was a 2.5 turbo diesel omega and the camshaft was chain driven. i also have been led to believe that some manufactures are going back to chain drive.

 

It's chain driven in other words all the X Types come with the timing chain

 

thank god for that,ive always prefered cam chains,most of the time you get a warning of chain failure,you can usually hear the rattle when all is not well,whereas cam belts tend to suffer catastrophic failure.

 

belts bad, i was pretty nervous when they were checking mine becuase of a serious probelm, and was glad to know it was a chain, saved me a ton of money