[Vwdiesel] Talking about cooling - The demise of a diesel bunny

[Nate Wall]

A few years ago I replaced the alt. belt w/ a brand spankin new one from VW
(Autobahn), and later that day all of a sudden I heard something slapping
around under the hood and the alt. light immediately came on. I immediately
pulled over and found that my brand new belt shredded itself. Must have been
defective, since I replaced that belt many times before and never had an
immediate failure. I should have taken it back, but did not. Since it was
just the alternator belt and I was only about 5 miles from home, I drove home
and put the old belt back on.

Does anyone have a source for the alt belt, other than the dealer? I never
seem to be able to find them elsewhere. Its the short (960 MM?) belt for
diesel A-2 Jetta w/ A/C and no P/S.

--Nate

LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> > It is a pity as I am sure that the car
> >  will end up in the junk yard now.
>
>   If that's the case maybe if you get the info on where it is, maybe Ed
> could muster the time to check on it?  If not I have a friend in the area
> that might be able to check on it.
>   Yeah, it's not like the alt light as well as possibly others would
> immediately
> come on when the belt came off.  :P
>      Loren
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