- posted
13 years ago
The alternator belt on my Citroen Xsara diesel broke at the weekend
and I got it replaced at the garage yesterday. However this was not a
simple (or cheap!!) replacement. The belt was still basically in
one piece but had come off the poly V pulley on the crankshaft and
jammed itself between the belt tensioner and the camshaft cover, badly
bending the tensioner and breaking the camshaft cover.
However the surpise was that there were no grooves left on the
crankshaft pulley. The pulley ressembled a flat belt pulley with only
an occasional slight impression of where the bottom of a groove had
been. All the other driven pulleys were OK and what remained of the
old belt also still looked like a poly V belt. The garage people had
never seen anything like it and we are left wondering how the grooves
had, effectively, been ground off the pulley.
The car is almost exactly five years old with 120,000 on the clock and
the belt was the original as far as we can tell.
Jim.