I am glad I stopped on my way home from work today when there was a clunking
noise and a smell of burning rubber/plastic! The outer ring of the larger
of the two belt pullies on the crankshaft pully came off and forced the A/C
belt off its smaller, front pully! (2.2L 4 cylinder) It looked like a
retread tire. The big belt was resting on a smooth inner part of the pully
and the ring with the grooves and the guides for the belt was sitting off to
the side. That has never happened to me before! Somehow the look of that
two-piece pully looks vaguely familiar - like something I saw years ago
somewhere, but the repair manual I have for the car just shows the pully as
a single-piece item. The car has 145,000 miles on it. Is this a common
occurrence on this engine? Sure, the car has a lot of miles, but one
doesn't expect this sort of thing. It is peculiar!

Anybody heard about any recalls or anything?
KWW