Yes. You can check the condition by removing the upper timing belt cover. Rotate the engine by hand and look for any teeth that may look loose, frayed, split, missing.

Or just do it to be safe. Its cheaper to do it now.

 

Mine went out on Friday on the freeway my mitsu is jsut a reg lancer es but I was in stop and go traffic and was at about 1000 rpms maybe less do you guys think that I have done some damage to my valves and or my heads???? And does any one live in Reno/Sparks area in Nevada if so can you change it cause it is the first time I changed a mitsu belt I only changed older ones (alot easier) please let me know thanks

 

i have 6xxx miles more till i have to this.

 

I did mine at 10x,xxx miles and the mechanics said that it was still in good condition. It just seems to vary by car...

 

The only time I've seen a timing belt BREAK under 120k miles is if the car had an oil leak that contaminated the belt material and weakened it.

However, I'll be changing mine every 60-90k just because it's super easy and cheaper than a new engine.

 

Yea I was lucky got mine back from the shop Monday evening and I just lost some teeth so it just slipped thank god lol

 

I just changed mine at around 140K miles...the old belt looked just like my new one. yah it was bright shining black but all the teeth and the belt itself look solid