Auxiliary belt & pulleys
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Just keep driving until it breaks, mine didn't until 160k miles, you can replace the pulleys which are worn by visual inspection and by feeling them.
I'm guessing that the OP is wanting to go down the boring predicable route and replace parts just before they fail!
Sometimes life gets in the way of you having an adventure while just driving down the road?
Edit:- I'm at that stage with my 2011 S4, soon be time to replace aux and charger belts, mileage only 24K miles though! (I must use it more often!)
Sometimes life gets in the way of you having an adventure while just driving down the road?
Edit:- I'm at that stage with my 2011 S4, soon be time to replace aux and charger belts, mileage only 24K miles though! (I must use it more often!)
Really to avoid problems, I'd always replace an auxiliary belt at roughly 6 years or 60K miles, but there again I like to avoid breakdowns.
As said if you find some pulleys/relay idlers/tensioner assemblies getting noisy and feeling rough, replace them at the same time.
As said if you find some pulleys/relay idlers/tensioner assemblies getting noisy and feeling rough, replace them at the same time.
Had that plastic pulley seized up?
Think back, were you getting any clues as to someone being "not right"?
Any collateral damage?
Think back, were you getting any clues as to someone being "not right"?
Any collateral damage?
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No there were no noises or signs of any issues. The plastic pulley is fine but the two halves pictures are supposed to e joined together by the spring in the middle (Its the dark coloured ring on the part on the right!) you can also see the housing has cracked.
Luckily the only other damaged was to the SC belt and the plastic SC Tensioner pulley, both of which were also then replaced.
I think I was very lucky as it could of been much worse.
