So Im driving down the highway going like 95 mph cause Im late for my parents christmas dinner and all the lights inside my car start to go off and its beeping like its overheating.. but it isnt. So I rolled to a stop and got towed home on xmas eve at 7pm. My tech said that my alternator shaft is bent. and thats whats causing my belts to be torn apart. I didnt realize that it was as bad until I looked at it in daylight and the whole belt is shreaded.

 

Wow! Merry Christmas from the FD. At least it's nothing major. Tom

 

It's a good thing it was only the belt, and it didn't rip through anything else. Cheap and fast fix, you definitly lucked out.
Good news, merry Christmas and happy new year.

 

yea... I had my dad pick me up and then i drove back to it with another car.... if they guy wants the car he can have it... I didnt want to be put in a situation I couldnt handle. a 5 foot girl against a 250 pound guy isnt exactly where I wanna be.

 

how many miles do you have on your car?

 

How much are the belts and what are the part numbers. You just scared me, and I think I wanna change mine too. I can't tell whats a real warn out sign though.

 

Check the underside of the belt for cracks or splits .

 

Same thing happened to me..

 

Congrats for having the good sense to shut it down and get it towed. There are a lot of people who would have just had to try to "limp" it home.

As fate would have it, I just changed my belts this morning because I shredded a PS/AC belt a couple days ago. They were old, but the real problem was a loose idler bearing. I've only had the car a few months, but it seems like I just keep finding things that were done wrong before I got it. There was some pretty sloppy work done by Mazda for the original owner.

Cheers,

 

I have 80K on it... original motor running strong. I just got the belt changed last week... that same day at the shop after taking it on a test spin the belt tore apart too. So this is gonna be the third belt in 2 weeks.