Curved sharpe piece of metal

[Aspen]

Just looked down the front of the engine and seen a precariously laying piece of curved shiny metal hanging above one of the large pulleys. It looks almost like one of the groves from said pully has come away. I mean it hasn’t but that’s what it looks like

How can I stick a picture up here for you to look at?

 

[Sandra]

Just looked down the front of the engine and seen a precariously laying piece of curved shiny metal hanging above one of the large pulleys. It looks almost like one of the groves from said pully has come away. I mean it hasn’t but that’s what it looks like

How can I stick a picture up here for you to look at?

https://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/how-to-upload-pictures-to-the-forum.322378/

 

[Aspen]

This is it in situ and I got my hand in there and pulled the dam thing out! Cleaned it up and that’s it in my fingers. What the hell is that!!

 

[Dippy]

Definitely not part of a pulley in the way you were thinking. Looks more like trim. Are there any markings?

 

[Aspen]

none whatsoever. It looks like it originally had rubber all the way round it, but its been torn off (hardly surprising really where it was) I count myself lucky I noticed it, this could have cut through one of those belts or worse really.

 

[Diesel bob]

I had a similar piece fall off my air con pulley clutch on my b6, does your air on still work?

 

[rum4mo]

The air con compressor on the B8 should be a variable displacement type so no electro mechanical clutch on the drive pulley like a B6, if that helps at all.

Edit:- I should have written electro magnetic clutch.

 

[Aspen]

Everything still works as it should. I recon it’s pinged off another car in a workshop somewhere and just ended up in my engine bay! ‍