Well, better safe than sorry, particularly with an "interference engine" like yours, where the engine basically grenades itself if the timing belt fails.

Meanwhile (thread hijack!) our 2008 Audi A3 had the right headlight fail. It's one of these xenon things that can change its direction and look left/right as you turn the steering wheel. Anyway, the bulb is now intermittently flickering and, when it comes on, it's pink rather than white. Not good.

Okay, I thought, I'll just order a new bulb and replace it. Easy, right? Ha! Apparently the only way to get to the bulb requires removing the front bumper. It's not a five minute job like on previous cars I've owned. No, this is a multi-hour odyssey. Also, apparently they had an unusually high failure rate and Audi was doing replacements free of charge if they failed in 4 years / 50,000 miles. The car is now 8 years old, so that's not going to fly either.

Arrrgh.