2019 3008 petrol

[Dan Ireland]

Hi
We bought a 3008 petrol in March 2019.
We were very happy with it finding it to be a very comfortable drive and had no problems with it.
We have serviced it regularly firstly with the main dealer and then with our local garage who has been in the trade for years, does great work and really looks out for us advising of any work he thinks necessary.
We took it for its most recent service (about 85000km) in late January and he advised is that there were issues with the timing belts for 3008s and asked us to check with main dealer on when it should be replaced. We rang our main dealer where we bought the car and were advised it needed to be replaced at 200000km or 12 years. We told our guy this and he didn’t agree and strongly advised us to change at next service (100000km) which we agreed to as we trust him.
On Wednesday my wife was driving and the car lost power and stopped without warning - no warning lights, nothing.
We had it towed to our local guy who told us the engine was gone and needed replacing - most likely because shards had broken off the timing belt and prevented oil lubricating around the engine- it only has 92000km!
He advised us to take it to our main dealer as we should not have to pay this cost ourselves - it’s not right given we have serviced it as required and correctly.
We did and have been told our car is out of warranty since March and they are contacting Peugeot Ireland to see what they will do given it’s out of warranty.
Has anyone else had a similar experience and how did they fare out?
We cannot believe this could have happened to a car with just 92000km (57000 miles) with full service history and especially after being told no need to change the timing belt until 200000km or 12 years back in January!
Any help would be really appreciated
Thanks
Dan

[Dan Ireland]

Found this video from a car dealer in UK - these engines seem to be all problems

[Dan Ireland]

Found this video from a car dealer in UK - these engines seem to be all problems

[Dan Ireland]

Update: Our main dealer came back to us to say our car needs a new engine as the timing belt has failed and that Peugeot will not cover any of the costs which they quoted us at almost €7000. Apparently Peugeot put our case to their parent company, Stellantis, who make the puretech engine and they refused to cover any of the costs for them, so Peugeot in turn refused to cover any of our costs as the car is out of warranty since early March. This is so wrong! The car has only 92000km and we were told by the main dealer that the timing belt didn’t need to be changed until 200000km or 12 years - the service manager of the main dealer where we bought the car told us that’s still the recommendation from Peugeot! We had planned to change it at our next service around 100000km as advised by our local mechanic who services our car but then this happened - if we were told to change it earlier we would have done it. We’re not going to let this go! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!