Anyone else experienced this? Was sitting at a red light at idle last night in a snow storm, heard a screech and a pop. Then the charging light came on. Noticed power steering was gone, got it into a parking lot under its own power, popped the hood and the belt was on top of the engine, looked down and laying in the belly pan was the tensioner pulley with half of the tensioner arm still attached to it.

Called AAA at 10pm, they said it would be 12 hours. Just called them to ask if 12 hours was still accurate, they said it may actually be tomorrow before they can tow it. So I'm going to go recover it myself.

Anyone else had this happen? Could something else have caused this? (The belt tensioner arm cracking, not AAA being inundated with people crashing their cars in 1/2" of snow)

2006 E320 CDI

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