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[albitz]

Went to Clacton Cracktown on sea today,coming back about 5pm just going down a fast left hander onto the slip road to the A120 and the steering felt very heavy. Swmbo then pointed out the red light on the dash (battery not charging) and the temp gauge quickly shot of the scale.
Borrocks ,I thought, aux belt has snapped. Drove on for about a mile until I found a layby, lifted the bonnet and sure enough I could see various bits of belt hanging off pulleys.
Called green flag,who turned up in half an hour and drove the Mig onto the back of the recovery truck.The first time Ive ever had to do that in my life. Took a while to get home as the A12 was  completely blocked due to an accident,but got home at 7pm.
Had an important meeting to go to tonight,so hung a torch on the underside of the bonnet and got the tools out. It turns out the tensioner pulley and bearing had collapsed and disintegrated allowing the belt to escape captivity and shred itself all over the engine bay.
Had a spare belt and tensioner pulley in the shed so proceeded to change them. Due to the only light being the torch hanging from the bonnet it took almost 2 hours. Had to get it up and running as I have to go to work at 6.45 am in the morning,and both my other cars are currently unroadworthy.     Got to the meeting just as it finished,but the car seems to be running fine with no apparent damage.
An interesting evening to say the least.

Brave, with the temp at full scale, took my ex about a mile to do the HG in on one of mine with the same issue, or so she said. 

Seems to be running ok ,but I will keep an eye on it for a while. If the HG are gone I will be advertising yet another Omega as breaking for parts.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Brave, with the temp at full scale, took my ex about a mile to do the HG in on one of mine with the same issue, or so she said. 

That'll be why she's the Ex then? 

[TheBoy]

Last time my Omega was on a tow truck, I saved a fortune in petrol getting it home from France

[jonny2112]

Last time my Omega was on a tow truck, I saved a fortune in petrol getting it home from France

 

[adey2]

exactly what happened to goldie the elite of my two omegas, the tensioner siezed and missis drove till it stopped, partly caused by shards of belt got into the cambelt case making it jump teeth, been ok since its half rebuild, still cant work out how it only bent 2 valves, glad to hear yours wasnt as drastic

[YZ250]

Last time I was recovered was when the crank sensor died. Had a choice of waiting for 2 hours for a flat-bed or be towed home on a bar, so I chose the bar. As the car started when the engine was cold I refrained from starting it until I needed the power steering to get around tight mini-roundabouts. I then switched it off to position 1 again.
Up a particularly long steep hill on a bypass, the AA van started to struggle with the weight of the Omega behind it and was knocked down to about 25mph, so I fired up the engine and........ gave him a little push. It's fair to say he was not happy.