Put in perspective. Sounds like replacing a belt costs about the same as have a major service done on the NT.
To me a belt may be a good substitute for a shaft
I do not remember the full details but IIRC the belt drive on the BM was a problem early on in that there was some type of fault with the system that meant that when the belt was changed the first time you also had to replace the front pulley as well to a modified type. The sting here was that the new pulley would not fit onto the original output shaft and required a gearbox strip-down to replace the output shaft to a modified type too. I believe that after a certain time BMW would not cover the cost as it was not considered a rework but a maintenance item.
Does anyone know more about this?
Macka
It sounds like all he does, is to remove the belt guard enough to slip the old belt off and slip the new belt on.
Yeah, that's pretty much the way I did it. There was something in the way that I had to move, but not a big deal.