Drove off my drive 100 yards down the road no power steering lights all over dash, belt shredded 😡 glad it didn’t happen last week going up the great orme in Llandudno. I’m going to tackle this one myself I’ve done them on my old D3 it looks a tougher job, I’ve got the genuine D3 locking tool and downer for the fan would this work on the range rover it’s the 4.4tdv8 is there a write up as to how to do this and a list of parts needed. I’m looking at changing all I idlers etc

Any help gratefully received 2012 Range Rover Westminster 4.4 TDV8
2006 Discovery 3 HSE 260k miles and still going strong with a new owner

Got around to removing the shredded belt the big belt is totaly shredded the small one looks to have just snapped and I’m assuming this then took the big one with it, when I bought the car it had its oil cooler replaced under waranty and I asked them to change the tensioner and belt as it was almost 9 years old they replaced the big belt but not the small one which was date stamped 2012 has anyone else had the small belt just snap like this taking the big one with it, I’ve checked all the pulleys and they spin freely with no noise or side to side play, the only one that is harder to spin is the AC it spins but not as easy as the others
Any ideas

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what was the make i swear by gates belts now you are going to tell me it was new vehicle purchase
2007 supercharged 4.2 java black .sand leather vogue se trim
previous cars .
range rover classic 200 tdi
discovery 1 200 tdi
freelander 2 2008 hse
discovery 1 300 tdi
p38 4.0 ltr man r380 ex royal support vehicle on v5c
discovery td5 man off roader

no idea it was dated 2012 same year car was made 2012 Range Rover Westminster 4.4 TDV8
2006 Discovery 3 HSE 260k miles and still going strong with a new owner

so over 9 years old i think that belt has done very well new vehicle purchase
2007 supercharged 4.2 java black .sand leather vogue se trim
previous cars .
range rover classic 200 tdi
discovery 1 200 tdi
freelander 2 2008 hse
discovery 1 300 tdi
p38 4.0 ltr man r380 ex royal support vehicle on v5c
discovery td5 man off roader

The pivot in the tensioner for the rear belt is prone to wearing which causes the belt to run forwards on its pulley eventually running off the pulley. Non-genuine tensioners are known to be sloppy which causes the belt to tend to run off the front.

It had a genuine tensioner and main belt 13 months ago, I’m assuming the small belt snapped and got under the rear belt taking it with it, not sure weather to go to my stealers for full genuine or advanced factors or Duckworth’s for the parts 2012 Range Rover Westminster 4.4 TDV8
2006 Discovery 3 HSE 260k miles and still going strong with a new owner

The small belt is meant to be cut to gain access to the longer one but they can be levered off so may have been damaged.

hi as stated above i have all ways fitted gates belts to all my vehicles and to my customers cars and never had one come back with problems over 40 years so must be good new vehicle purchase
2007 supercharged 4.2 java black .sand leather vogue se trim
previous cars .
range rover classic 200 tdi
discovery 1 200 tdi
freelander 2 2008 hse
discovery 1 300 tdi
p38 4.0 ltr man r380 ex royal support vehicle on v5c
discovery td5 man off roader

I always change the serpentine belt on buying a car, and keep the outgoing one in the boot, for the AA man to change if it ever does the worst! I changed my 4.4 one simply. It’s best to have pictures of the route it takes to hand as a guide.

Mine shredded yesterday too. So just ordered the two belts and tensioner and idlers get it all done in a oner
How did you tackle this. Did you remove the front end or work with everything else in situ
I ordered mine from af factors Hopefully it will arrive this week ready for me to tackle at the weekend 2016 4.4 diesel

I’ll do a how to later today as once you know what to remove it’s not to bad only tool and hour to get it all back together 2012 Range Rover Westminster 4.4 TDV8
2006 Discovery 3 HSE 260k miles and still going strong with a new owner