Want this question answered?
If your timing belt has cracks in it both inside and out, replace it!
The timing belt and head gasket are two different things. To replace the head gasket you will have to remove the head necessitating removing the timing belt. If you are going to replace your head gasket it is best to put a new timing belt, a timing belt tensioner and possibly a new water pump. BMW recommends changing the timing belt every 60K miles and the water pump every 120K miles. The belts and pumps are not that expensive and it beats having to go back in and replace them later. Note that on the M3's there is a timing chain rather than a belt.
do you have to change a timing belt on a 93 318 is BMW
Inferior technology is only used on inferior cars. BMW stopped using belt timing in the early nineties. They all have chains.
the e60 520d bmw has a timing chain
no timing chain
The 2004 E63/E64 BMW 645ci has the N62B44 V8 engine, which uses a timing chain, not a timing belt.
The BMW m52 has a timing chain not a timing belt. there is no maintenance on the chain it is made for the life of the engine.
timing CHAIN
No. It has a timing chain.
1998, 318 is fitted with a timing chain not a timing belt.
It doesn't have a belt --- it has a chain