Hey guys,

I had posted this in with my intro post but I guess nobody really checks the newbies corner, haha.

Last week when I left for work I noticed an odd smell and noise coming from the car. Opened up the hood to find my alternator pulley had exploded and made a mess of my engine bay, haha. The smell was the rubber belt burning and throwing rubber around.
I lurked the forum and found out this isn't exactly an uncommon issue on the model and went ahead and ordered a new belt and pulley, along with the 33 spline socket tool to get the job done, from online.





Jump forward to yesterday and the parts turned up but I had to go into hospital for some minor surgery which was gonna have me out of action for the week, so I booked a mobile mechanic for today to come swap the old pulley out for me and fit the belt.
New mechanic has advised me that it's more than likely the alternator was damaged internally once the pulley started to go and I'd be up for a new alternator as well as a new idle pulley since there's a fair bit of belt residue on the one in the car. Fun afternoon, right?

Just after some advice, should I be buying a new alternator completely or go ahead with replacing just the pulley, belt, and tensioner?

Cheers


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