Timing Belt? NOW: Broken belts

[John Lagnese]

As long as the car doesn't have the water pump on the same belt!
John

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From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 10:48 AM
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Subject: Was: Timing Belt? NOW: Broken belts


Huw Powell wrote:
Subject: Re: Timing belt ?
But why would any of the alt/PS/AC belts make a car lose power?

The alternator belt can do this. When it breaks (happened twice to me in
20 years, once on an 85 5000 and once in an 89 100q), you can keep driving
until the battery looses all of its charge, upon which the car will die.
Of course, you don't want to do this. But you can do it, and get yourself
to an auto parts store to buy the replacement if one happens to be close
enough to such a shop (or home to park her). Presumably the battery light
in the dash will alert the savvy driver to the fact that this is the belt
that has broken, rather than the "timing" belt. For the 4000 under
discussion, I could see that if there was a crap battery in the car, and
then the alternator belt broke from age or incorrect installation (athough
how you could f**k that up, I don't know), then the car could run for a
short time before being dead upon re-start.

Regardless, my experience with my 100 led to the habit of keeping an extra
belt in the trunk just in case. . .

I did the same with my 5000, although I've yet to stock the new S6 with
those kinds of odds and ends, maybe because the car feels so damn nice,
how could anything go wrong? Yeah, right. . .

Tom

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