Thought I'd do the belt on my connect today as a couple of jobs were canceled for this afternoon, so I pulled it in the garage and began to source a belt kit etc then go about stripping it down. Everything went well and took a lot less time than the autodata lol. So everything back together all going really well and started first turn of the key superb so I thought. Anyway ticked over for about two minutes then all of a sudden made a horrible noise and ground to a halt. The worst thing possible had happened something wrong in the belt cover!! I stripped it down and the belt was shredded and ground away the cover but tensioner looked intact. I couldn't for the life of me understand why this had happened so checked a couple of forums and there was a couple suggesting a misshapen new tensioner so checking it against a square the tensioner the tapers slightly towards the cover only 1-2 mm but noticeable. It was a gates kit and iam waiting to hear back from my supplier tomorrow who are contacting gates. This slight taper would make perfect sense..
Has this ever happened to anyone else?