(and im just double checking here)
my mum's fiat cinquecento 899cc sx alternator belt has ****ed itself (screaching and actually BROKE once, and has been tightened up a few times to stop sqealing) 3 or 4 times in the past year+1/2. i saw earlier today to check myself incase it snapped again and i saw big chunks of the belt teeth were missing! and the alternators' 'wheel' ill call it, i could turn freely and smoothly myself while the belt remained the same position. < see cos im a capri owner i dont know wether these are normal or what!! my capri has never done anything like this! funny really. anywho, could it be as its a reccurring problem, that one of the belt wheels is shot away and messing up the belts everytime?
i thought also that because this car has also 'died' on me ,literally not firing, turning, no lights nothing . i took the battery out 2 times and it was fully charged + then plumbed it back in and it worked no problems. the third time the battery was truely flat. i thought that maybe there is more to it than i thought+ possibly alt. related? i dunno. this is the most confusing problem.
i was hoping to know what the fault was myself without paying someone else just to find out!
i dont particularly want anyone having an accident due to these faults you know what i mean?!?
any suggestions or has anyone had the same problems?
my mum's fiat cinquecento 899cc sx alternator belt has ****ed itself (screaching and actually BROKE once, and has been tightened up a few times to stop sqealing) 3 or 4 times in the past year+1/2. i saw earlier today to check myself incase it snapped again and i saw big chunks of the belt teeth were missing! and the alternators' 'wheel' ill call it, i could turn freely and smoothly myself while the belt remained the same position. < see cos im a capri owner i dont know wether these are normal or what!! my capri has never done anything like this! funny really. anywho, could it be as its a reccurring problem, that one of the belt wheels is shot away and messing up the belts everytime?
i thought also that because this car has also 'died' on me ,literally not firing, turning, no lights nothing . i took the battery out 2 times and it was fully charged + then plumbed it back in and it worked no problems. the third time the battery was truely flat. i thought that maybe there is more to it than i thought+ possibly alt. related? i dunno. this is the most confusing problem.
i was hoping to know what the fault was myself without paying someone else just to find out!
i dont particularly want anyone having an accident due to these faults you know what i mean?!?
any suggestions or has anyone had the same problems?
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