Wet Belt Replacement Old Town, Edinburgh

Wedged between the Royal Mile, the Grassmarket setts and the crawl up toward the Castle, Old Town cars barely cover a mile before parking again. Residents here keep low-mileage EcoBoost Fiestas and PureTech 208s that never see the A720, so the wet belt ages on the calendar while the odometer stays low. Stone-cold starts on cobbles are the daily reality. Left unchecked, a belt this old can quietly poison the oil pump.

Areas our Old Town specialists cover: New Town, Holyrood, Grassmarket, Cowgate, Canongate, Southside, Dumbiedykes — and the wider Edinburgh area.

Tourist-quarter cars do almost no distance, so the belt perishes by age, not mileage, and the rattle never warns you.