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Originally Posted by Scooser
Sorry to hear this Tomas. Can you enlighten us why it happened on your car. Was the aux belt and tensioner changed at 54k mile intervals and did it have the latest mechanical tensioner? Was it ten tensioner that caused it or something else? Was there any noise or warning?
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Hello. It was probably the wheel on the alternator that is supposed to compensate for vibrations. In norwegian it is called a freewheel. When the bearing inside the wheel is stuck, the extra vibrations on the belt will cause it to wear out very quickly, and will cause massive force on the tensioner and every parts involved. There where no noises or warning before it happened, and it took about 2 seconds. I do not know about the service on the belt and parts that involves because I have only own the car for 6 months. After som research on the subject, the freewheel on the alternator is the cause of most of these cases, but very few people are aware of that. Sorry for my bad English....☺