![]() 10/27/2019 at 13:05 • Filed to: FCA Reliability, broken, Made In Mexico, Don't make me get the belt out, Stranded | ![]() | ![]() |
Went to start it, heard a flopping noise & this was the result. Fortunately it happened at home. Culprit is the water pump. TBD if anything else died in the process.
Blah.
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Ours just eats batteries. It’s on it’s third set in 1.5 years. It does have like 100k miles worth of idle time on it though.
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I had that happend to mine twice. the 2nd belt got tangled under the shield for the timing belt and made it lock up/skip timing. Welp :(
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Balls.
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Mine is really good in that regard. It almost never idles:
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A t least the water pump is driven by the accessory belt , and not th e timing chain!
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How does that work? My old Renault managed to survive ten years on the original battery
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Tons of electronics running off of them, and constantly being charged.