You don't say what kind of car it is, but I'd suspect if you check the owner's manual it recommends the timing belt be replaced at 60,000 miles. For obvious reasons.
Running the gamut of manufacturers, interference engines with timing belts (as opposed to chains) is the rule rather than the exception, nowadays. No belt lasts forever. Some manufacturers recommend replacing the belt at 60K, some at 90K, but all have a recommendation. What any auto owner needs to do is READ AND COMPREHEND the owner's manual.
It never ceases to amaze me how people will spend a thousand bucks on computer equipment and spend weeks and months learning everything they can about it, but they'll spend twenty times that on a vehicle and won't bother to learn anything but how to turn the key and where to put the gasoline.
The lowly Ford Pinto has been much maligned, but on one of them if the timing belt broke--you replaced the timing belt, nothing more.
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