Cambelt lower cover

[madcarl27]

Heard loads of stories of aux belts snapping and this causing timing belt to skip a few notches and ruin the head.
But on inspection of my car whilst changing the aux belt I see that the cam belt has a cover over it all the way down to crank pulley keeping it fully protected. So how does the aux belt destroy the Cambelt / engine when it snaps ?

Cheers

 

[incy-spider]

It winds it's self in when shredded!

 

[madcarl27]

Typical init. Haven't heard of any other cars doing it. Just clios lol. It's like driving a ticking time bomb lol

 

[AlexW]

Actually does happen on other cars, but Clios being reasonably high revving and having a long aux belt, even worse imo.

Plus that lower belt cover is only plastic, easy for the belt to break through it, moreso when some monkey has been working on it and broke it.

 

[madcarl27]

Yea fair 1 mate. But on a good note rarely hear of head gaskets going ! Lol