Honda Civic Timing Belts do Stretch

Although this 2002 Honda Civic only has 48,000 miles, the timing belt had stretched far enough that the engine was sluggish on acceleration and threw sensor codes.
Lucky for the owner, the diagnosis was not a bad sensor. Instead the Honda trained technicians at Z Tech diagnosed the problem correctly and had both timing belt the water pump replaced at same time.

[d]

Calling BS. Someone inadvertently rotated the crankshaft CW while removing the harmonic balancer pulley, causing that much slack. It's not the belt's job to take up slack, it's the tensioner, and it only works when the engine turns the correct way.

If indeed the tensioner has failed, then a belt change is advised due to the labour time involved.

[glennhansel]

I call BS along with the others. No way is it stretched that much. It's loose due to the tensioner. These guys don't know what they are talking about

[TheRealWormsGarage]

That belt had some life but in a mechanic view you need to replace that belt ideally bother 100k and 6-8 year mark but you can push it to 100k+ and 10 years. Ive pushed a suzuki forenza from basically new to 140k before my tensioner failed

[ztechfyivideo]

Actually the timing belt had 41800 original miles on it, it was stretched as can be seen in the video. No one had replaced the timing belt before and the technician has it disassembled just enough to see what's going on.