Ugrent advice needed ?? Lucky escape ???

[RichieJA]

When I got my car the timing belt had been done but not the aux, I noticed it was in bad shape so I ordered a new one today, I recently noticed I had a coolant leak ( its stopped now lol) so when checking it I looked at aux belt and seen this...
Is it OK to drive till new belt arrives or was a short trip away from a new engine ????

 

[Budgie]

Just looks like an old aux belt to me. Not about to die by the looks of it.

Any frays/cracks/damage to the edges and i'd not run it.

 

[RichieJA]

There's is a long length of the belt hanging off its badly cracked aswell

 

[car.crash]

I've ran worse but not on purpose.
Any sound advice would be to not drive on that, but it's a few days before Christmas so you'll be limited on a fix any time soon.

When I've seen them fray like that the entire length usually peels back and it's starts to slap. Peel the entire strip off the damaged section.

 

[Budgie]

Yeah, i'd be running that as little as possible then mate.

 

[RichieJA]

I'm really worried about it snaping and taking the timing belt with it

 

[iimushroomzii]

I'm really worried about it snaping and taking the timing belt with it

Don't drive it then.