Realized my timing belt was fraying after a road trip stop in Flagstaff

I pulled over to check a weird noise outside Winslow and found strands hanging off the belt. Anyone else ever caught a belt failure just by looking under the hood at a random gas station?

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taylor_patel3mo ago

Did you catch it with enough time to find a shop in Flagstaff?

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torres.blair3mo ago

Wait, you seriously relied on visual inspections before and never actually checked the system logs? That's wild to me, lmao. I've seen too many things slip through that would've been caught by even a basic diagnostic tool. So glad you got that mindset shift before something major happened.

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stella223mo ago

Yeah learning that lesson the hard way myself once, never again.

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walker.julia3mo ago

Used to skip visual inspections on road trips but this totally changed my mind on that.

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