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Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by Nobody: 8:32am On May 15, 2018
jaychubi:


Always have spare fan belt just like u have spare tyre

Those are the old days.

Now I just carry cellphone, credit card and AAA card grin
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by hush15: 8:33am On May 15, 2018
Readonee35L:

Do you know the distance between does houses. undecided


Lol....


I say Nigerian sense no be for here. Imagine the question even sef.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by hush15: 8:34am On May 15, 2018
nepapole:
Good morning good folks. Just about 5 buildings Away from my home, I discovered that my fan belt had damaged. That was yesterday while returning from an outting. So I thought to my self, what if this had happened in the middle of a highway where I can hardly find a "Kazeem" ?. What would I have done? This is the reason I ask this question. Thanks in advance for your answers.

Na yankee ooo.


I gat ya back
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by laluski(m): 8:34am On May 15, 2018
But come o.a few years back I was driving a '94 Camry (Orobo) from yaba heading to ikorodu.somewhere before Maryland I noticed my car speed was behaving funny and was hearing a strange noise.it went on like that till my car stopped a few meters after mile 12 bridge.long story short, mecho said it was the fan belt.changed it and I drove off.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by Nobody: 8:40am On May 15, 2018
GAZZUZZ:



people who drive such cars do not come to cartalk wink

Thanks for the correction sha

Okay then, I’ll invite my curmudgeon friends who are owners of pre war steeds to infest the aforementioned locale and hitherto start discussing benefits of hand cranking versus push starts grin
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by GAZZUZZ(m): 8:45am On May 15, 2018
EgunMogaji:


Okay then, I’ll invite my curmudgeon friends who are owners of pre war steeds to infest the aforementioned locale and hitherto start discussing benefits of hand cranking versus push starts grin

shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by Kobicove(m): 8:56am On May 15, 2018
GAZZUZZ:


Correct word is serpentine belt.

It depends on what the belt drives. Let me give you an example.

In a 1mz-fe engine that powers the popular lexus RX300, avalon, camry v6 2001...... the serpentine belt drives the alternator,power steering pump and compressor.

Meaning as long as your battery is charged it, you might cover over 200km until your battery dies out.

Water pump is powered by the timing belt.

Now for a vehicle like the kia rio toyota corrola, or camry with the 2az engine, your temp will hit the red mark in less than 5mins. Reason, the serpentine belt drives the water pump. When coolant is static, great recipe for overheating.

Question is, what kind of car do you drive?

smiley
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by Nobody: 9:10am On May 15, 2018
GAZZUZZ:


shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked

Peugeot 404 has hand crank engine grin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icisITfjG9Y

Bonjour Monsieur Gazzuzz, Es car go? No?
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by BRIGHT180(m): 9:22am On May 15, 2018
As far as the nearest mechanic shop
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by AkpaMgbor(m): 9:25am On May 15, 2018
Give or take 500m to 1km at most..for a w124 Benz that is...
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by tripoli007(m): 9:31am On May 15, 2018
I drive a 2005 Camry , I had a similar incident on Sunday abt 10pm ,driving to the island ,my fan belt cut out on 3rd mainlamd bridge .. I was able to manage the car to Lekki phase 1 .. Once the temp pin goes too high , I park for 15mins and move again ..

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Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by GAZZUZZ(m): 9:38am On May 15, 2018
EgunMogaji:


Peugeot 404 has hand crank engine grin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icisITfjG9Y

Bonjour Monsieur Gazzuzz, Es car go? No?




as long as engine starts, all push nah push

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Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by Josh44s(m): 10:07am On May 15, 2018
diportivo:
which one is fan belt?

Fan wey get belt.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by pawesome(m): 10:37am On May 15, 2018
E no go reach 5mins...e go just knock
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by Kemuni(m): 11:05am On May 15, 2018
nepapole:
Good morning good folks. Just about 5 buildings Away from my home, I discovered that my fan belt had damaged. That was yesterday while returning from an outting. So I thought to my self, what if this had happened in the middle of a highway where I can hardly find a "Kazeem" ?. What would I have done? This is the reason I ask this question. Thanks in advance for your answers.

You might as well download the mecofinder App available on Appstore and Playstore to find the closest "Kazeem" within your immediate location.

www.mecofinder.com

Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by victorazyvictor(m): 11:34am On May 15, 2018
nepapole:
Good morning good folks. Just about 5 buildings Away from my home, I discovered that my fan belt had damaged. That was yesterday while returning from an outting. So I thought to my self, what if this had happened in the middle of a highway where I can hardly find a "Kazeem" ?. What would I have done? This is the reason I ask this question. Thanks in advance for your answers.

If you can maintain constant speed (place where there is no holdup) with cool humidity, you can drive all the way to your destiny.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by Zane2point4(m): 11:44am On May 15, 2018
GAZZUZZ:


Correct word is serpentine belt.

It depends on what the belt drives. Let me give you an example.

In a 1mz-fe engine that powers the popular lexus RX300, avalon, camry v6 2001...... the serpentine belt drives the alternator,power steering pump and compressor.

Meaning as long as your battery is charged it, you might cover over 200km until your battery dies out.

Water pump is powered by the timing belt.

Now for a vehicle like the kia rio toyota corrola, or camry with the 2az engine, your temp will hit the red mark in less than 5mins. Reason, the serpentine belt drives the water pump. When coolant is static, great recipe for overheating.

Question is, what kind of car do you drive?
thank you very much, i still have high hopes in nigeria if i read concise and well informative comment like yours.

i believe we are here to learn, someone opened an educative topic like this and some ppl are joking over it.

Don't just be surprised they may just blcome victim of this circumstance then they'll find themselves in an obvious avoidable dilemma.

i have learnt not to take things like this for guaranteed, am saving this in my "reference memory " just in case i might need it.

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Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by gokefolaranmi(m): 12:07pm On May 15, 2018
[quote author=GAZZUZZ post=56102307]

[color=#990000]Correct word is serpentine belt.

It depends on what the belt drives. Let me give you an example



Oga Gazzuzz, well done sah.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by ikillmods: 1:12pm On May 15, 2018
jum33:
See jamb question .Nigerian sabi ask silly question sha. grin.
The farthest you can go will depend on how long you are willing to risk it untill your engine got knocked !!

If you could not contribute anything meaningful, you could have turned off your data connection, now you have wasted data and space. It is not my waste sha
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by ajaymina(m): 1:15pm On May 15, 2018
diportivo:
which one is fan belt?
Please the question is not for u...
Tnkx
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by diportivo: 1:26pm On May 15, 2018
Josh44s:


Fan wey get belt.

but fan no dey get belt na




ajaymina:


Please the question is not for u...

Tnkx

u also did not need to answer...it will be best if u simply channel ur efforts into ur sports betting ish

Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by pafek(m): 1:54pm On May 15, 2018
Peugeot 406, E10 engine.
1st time, belt shattered, entered timing belt. had to change complete cylinder.
2nd time, roller got hooked and belt came out. drove over 10km straight to d mechanic. though no overheating, but experience white smoke from d exhaust.
after that, no problemà
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by ogundeleai(m): 3:02pm On May 15, 2018
The very first thing you notice is that the steering will be tough to move smoothly but this can still be managed most especially if you are not going to negotiate any bend or popular round about... As to how far you can go with such belt defects, I will suggest you keep eye on temperature gauge and you make temporary stop when It passes half mark... You can still continue with the journey incase you can't find replacement at hand... However you need to be constantly stop to let engine cool off..
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by EASY39(m): 3:06pm On May 15, 2018
nija80:
I Will go with my Oga Gazzuzz It depends on what type of car and Engine size.I have driven without knowing the first lady corrola from Ibadan to Lagos once without the belt it held because of breeze from outside,the size of the Engine etc it was when i ran into traffic at redeem that i know say god na one.That day i bought almost five bags of pure water to put inside the radiator.But once the traffic cleared it was zoom zoom
Honestly You are correct,if their is zoom zoom the car like benz c class is save ,but once you enter traffic then you need to buy garri for your best eba.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by InvertedHammer: 3:41pm On May 15, 2018
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You are asking this question on something as cheap as serpentine belt a.k.a fan belt undecided

I suggest you drive it from Lagos to Calabar.

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Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by abidemidare: 6:43pm On May 15, 2018
Happened to me last Sunday Honda accord 2010 V6, I was within my estate, I noticed some funny sound and the steering was stiff, battery sign was on on the dashboard, I tried driving it home.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by Somatic(m): 7:09pm On May 15, 2018
2001 Toyota Camry . Belt cut in two, car engine dies like 5 minutes after that on a roundabout.

A friends 2003 Peugeot 307. Fan cut at Zuba, owner drove it to Zaria before turning back to Kaduna to replace the belt and fix the car.

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Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by ajaymina(m): 7:18pm On May 15, 2018
diportivo:


but fan no dey get belt na






u also did not need to answer... [s]it will be best if u simply channel ur efforts into ur sports betting ish[/s]

kai!!!

I no know say na u sef!

lol

no b quarrel la!!!

[s]
diportivo:


but fan no dey get belt na






u also did not need to answer... [s]it will be best if u simply channel ur efforts into ur sports betting ish[/s]

kai!!!

I no know say na u sef!

lol

no b quarrel la!!!

[/s]
diportivo:


but fan no dey get belt na






u also did not need to answer... [s]it will be best if u simply channel ur efforts into ur sports betting ish[/s]

kai!!!

I no know say na u sef!

lol

no b quarrel la!!!
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by 400billionman: 8:49am On May 16, 2018
nepapole:
Good morning good folks. Just about 5 buildings Away from my home, I discovered that my fan belt had damaged. That was yesterday while returning from an outting. So I thought to my self, what if this had happened in the middle of a highway where I can hardly find a "Kazeem" ?. What would I have done? This is the reason I ask this question. Thanks in advance for your answers.
40 kilometers but drained my battery when I entered traffic congestion. Depends on how well your battery was charged before the fan belt failure.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by 400billionman: 8:50am On May 16, 2018
jum33:
See jamb question .Nigerian sabi ask silly question sha. grin.
The farthest you can go will depend on how long you are willing to risk it untill your engine got knocked !!
wrong
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by seangy4konji: 8:02pm On May 17, 2018
Oga @GAZZUZ

Please i need help...My bro took my Toyota Tundra 2008 out and one of the hoses came out..the one from the radiator to the engine but he did not notice..He brought the car back home without noticing it...I took the car out an immedeately noticed when the car stopped that the temperature was on red and packed...i fi xed the hose and pured water after d engine had cooled down and it started continued only for the emperature to go up again..i got a mechanic to get a new longer hose and pushed it home but the car wont start again and while trying battery went down and water was there...

Now mechanic says d gasket has burnt which i dont trust this lagos mechnic at all...can it burn when there is water inside the engine or had burnt when the first water went out?

If i want to fix this gasket?please what would it cost me

Urgent response would be appreciated.
Re: What's The Farthest A Car Can Go With A Damaged Fan Belt? by pafek(m): 10:42pm On May 17, 2018
seangy4konji:
Oga @GAZZUZ

Please i need help...My bro took my Toyota Tundra 2008 out and one of the hoses came out..the one from the radiator to the engine but he did not notice..He brought the car back home without noticing it...I took the car out an immedeately noticed when the car stopped that the temperature was on red and packed...i fi xed the hose and pured water after d engine had cooled down and it started continued only for the emperature to go up again..i got a mechanic to get a new longer hose and pushed it home but the car wont start again and while trying battery went down and water was there...

Now mechanic says d gasket has burnt which i dont trust this lagos mechnic at all...can it burn when there is water inside the engine or had burnt when the first water went out?

If i want to fix this gasket?please what would it cost me

Urgent response would be appreciated.
open the radiator coolant reservoir cover, make sure there's water inside, get someone to tryna start d start car.
if the water bubbles out at d process of trying to start d engine......Gasket don burn be that.
a quick technique use to determine burnt head gasket in most vehicles.

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