Lucky escape?!

[Chrisjk]

Been planning on changing my aux belt since i bought the car, was waiting till this weekend as i have a week off work incase any difficulties. Anyway took bumper, slam panel and headlight off, loosened the alternator bolt and that was it. No need to remove the wheel or jack up the engine here. Got my dad to make up a tool and the belt was off in no time, examining the old belt showed just how close to going it was...

Rubber fairly cracked

Nice gouge

and a tastey crack!

Glad its sorted now.

 

[Gray]

I don't think that had many miles left in it!!

 

[DrR]

How old? How many miles on it?

 

[Chrisjk]

Unsure, it's non genuine so makes me think its been changed at some point, however the cambelt was done in January and the muppets at Hi-Q must have put the origional aux belt back on , but the car itself has just hit 57k.

 

[DrR]

So it's probs really old, thats ok then.

 

[davebem]

Did you manage the change the tensioner without jacking the engine??

 

[Chrisjk]

The tensioner had been changed in the past 10k(according to reciepts) so i didn't do it this time, however it would probably have needed jacking up for that.

 

[p@blo]

Fair play mate, seems your luck was in spotting that!

 

[sideways danny]

they're all cracked like a lot quicker than you'd expect. The gouge is nasty though, probably done when it was re-fitted