For those of you who don't know I bought my car back in 06 with 50k miles on it. I knew that it had been in some kind of accident but I didn't understand the extent until I got under it and dug around.
Anyways, I stated doing my timing belt tonight and when I took the covers off and turned the crank to line everything up, I noticed that the driver side cams looked off. PIC:
The paint marks match up on the driver side but the factory marks do not. Its as if someone just mis marked the cam gear and it looks like its off 1 tooth. I assume that the factory doesn't use a paint marker when the car is put together so would that mean the timing belt was replaced before I bought the car? Could an accident be serious enough to require a new timing belt?? Should I have gotten a check engine light?
The other thing I noticed that will probably need replacing is the bottom gasket on the middle cam cover. PIC:
This seems like a dealer only part. I guess I will find out tomorrow when I call around.