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Mini Cooper S 1.6 2005 - Auxiliary belt gone an tensioner in bits #

Posted by Liam Clohessy on July 1, 2015, 9:46 am

Year of Manufacture *: 2005
( Optional ) Engine Code or CC: 1.6

Car was towed into garage after breaking down with fan belt gone and belt tensioner in bits. Seemingly belt was fitted lately at another dealer.

Got new belt and tensioner and fitted. After fitting belt seemed to be getting too hot after running for a few minutes. Took off belt and supercharger is stiff to turn but you would turn with hand.

Alternator pulley seems very hot but is easy to turn. Refitted belt and drove for a few miles and belt is starting to burn.

Anyone come across this as we do very little work on these minis as there are very few in the area.

Liam

Re: Mini Cooper S 1.6 2005 - Auxiliary belt gone an tensioner in bits #

Posted by Joe O'farrell <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=ukat3685' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 2, 2015, 7:44 pm, in reply to "Mini Cooper S 1.6 2005 - Auxiliary belt gone an tensioner in bits #"
Joe O'farrell

Liam

Ive had some dealings with these mini supercharger, but with a different problem.

This car was overheating, and we found the gears on the supercharger at the water pump end worn away.

We had the supercharger overhauled, and after the supercharger pulley wasn't particularly stiff to turn, just as I'd expect to turn the turbines in the unit.

We used Gtt mini tuning, maybe worth a call.

Hth

Regards

Joe

Re: Mini Cooper S 1.6 2005 - Auxiliary belt gone an tensioner in bits #

Posted by tony bickers <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=UKAT5143' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 2, 2015, 11:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Mini Cooper S 1.6 2005 - Auxiliary belt gone an tensioner in bits #"
Anthony Bickers

Liam,

If this car turned up at my shop, and after questioning customer and found out about the previous work, I would be telling the recovery driver to reload the motor and take it back to the "dealer" that fitted the last belt.

Clearly, something is seriously tight if the belt is burning,not too familiar with Mini's, got four on books at moment and not a good one amongst them, over rated, over priced and terrible to work on, have a look at doing a clutch

Re: Mini Cooper S 1.6 2005 - Auxiliary belt gone an tensioner in bits #

Posted by liam clohessy <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=ukat3050' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 6, 2015, 3:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Mini Cooper S 1.6 2005 - Auxiliary belt gone an tensioner in bits #"
Liam Clohessy

Thanks for replies.Think problem is definatly in the supercharger as pulley is out a small bit futher than other pulleys and this is putting pressure on belt .Contacted customer and advised him to take it back to dealer who has been working on it.Expensive job to get supercharger overhauled and we have little experience on same model.

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