In my experience I would say no almost certainly you will need new pistons if you where driving when it went and if so you would have cooked your engine. I know this because it happened to our 51 plate Megane and I got £250 for it from a spare parts dealer.
I've had car's were the cambelt has snapped but not damaged the engine, really depends on what the engine was doing at the time it snaped, i.e. under load or just idle
Its going to need new valves / the head reconditioning - pistons should be fine, the valves bend, not the pistons
Cheaper option may be to fit a good used head, or fit a good used complete engine, either of which isnt going to be cheap on labour - £500ish at a guess....
SilentReader is right. I came home one night, stopped and engine died before I turned off the ignition. The timing belt choose that moment when idling to break. No bent valve stems or donged piston crowns, just the belt to replace. Might be an idea to investigate further before sending it to the scrapman.
MOT is till Nov Not sure on tax ( will check on Sunday ) P reg so 96/97 done about 125000 miles and not had cam belt done in the 4 years or so we have owned it
To be honest we only paid about £500 for it and its passed every mot so don't really want to spend a lot fixing it. It's only really used as a work horse.
ok so we have decided that we are not going to bother getting it fixed as the garage have said that the price will start at around £350 - £400 assuming the cam belt has caused no damage.
We have been offered £216 scrap. Is this a good price ? Or does anyone want to offer better?