How many miles does it take to break a drive belt?
83,000 km is only 50,000 miles. Thats not actually very much distance on a belt but if the belt was original and therefore from ’96 it was definitely getting very old and probably dried out and cracked. Better to have it break at the mercy of some dog than while some cage was breathing down your neck out on the highway somewhere.
What happens if your serpentine belt breaks while driving?
Advances in material technology allow some belts to last more than 100k miles. Even a worn or damaged belt can survive for quite a while. But if the serpentine belt in your vehicle does break during driving, the results can be terrifying – and potentially dangerous.
Why did my drive belt break on my Harley Davidson?
You can’t be to hard on your bike for the belt to last that long. Maybe you picked up a piece of gravel causing belt to break. 83,000 km is only 50,000 miles. Thats not actually very much distance on a belt but if the belt was original and therefore from ’96 it was definitely getting very old and probably dried out and cracked.
What happens when your car’s timing belt breaks?
It depends. Some cars, like Subaru, have non-interference engines, which means that if the timing belt breaks while you are driving, there is no damage to the internal parts of the engine. Other cars do not have this sort of engine and damage results.
What can cause a drive belt to fail?
There are other causes of drive belt failures such as getting water in the belt drive hours, or not keeping the air filter for the CVT housing clean, but they only make up a small percentage of the drive belt failures that we see.
83,000 km is only 50,000 miles. Thats not actually very much distance on a belt but if the belt was original and therefore from ’96 it was definitely getting very old and probably dried out and cracked. Better to have it break at the mercy of some dog than while some cage was breathing down your neck out on the highway somewhere.
Advances in material technology allow some belts to last more than 100k miles. Even a worn or damaged belt can survive for quite a while. But if the serpentine belt in your vehicle does break during driving, the results can be terrifying – and potentially dangerous.
You can’t be to hard on your bike for the belt to last that long. Maybe you picked up a piece of gravel causing belt to break. 83,000 km is only 50,000 miles. Thats not actually very much distance on a belt but if the belt was original and therefore from ’96 it was definitely getting very old and probably dried out and cracked.