Q: Timing belt change gone wrong.... 2002 Suzuki

asked by on February 16, 2017

this car was not starting,,and we found the issue as a bad timing belt,, but the car is not getting started even after the timing belt got replaced properly,,and it is a 3 cylinder pertrol head

My car has 20 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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