JayCog44

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly guys. I figure I'll take a look to make sure something drastic doesn't jump out at me. I really appreciate the help. $6,800 for a 2002 outback limited in good shape with 127,000 sound about right to y'all?

Hi All, I found a 2002 subaru legacy limited 2.5L on Craigslist which seems to be in real good shape. The only problem is that the woman selling it doesn't have any of the service records. It has about 127,000 miles on it and she says that the timing belt has been replaced. Its not that I don't trust her, but I don't know her. It's my understanding that the 2.5L engine needs the timing belt replaced around 100k miles. Anyway, my question is, on that engine is it easy to check if the timing belt has been replaced? I mean is there just a cover I can take off to look at it or is there a lot of work just to look at it? Not sure if it would even do me any good to look at it but I figure I would be able to tell the difference between a timing belt with 127k miles on it vs. a timing belt with 20k miles on it. Any help would be appreciated... this forum rocks and I've gotten a lot of great info here already. Cheers, Jay