Battery light on and no power steering
 

Didn't see this and had got the gates at O'Reilly yesterday. Was a pain to GT wt the old belt off. It had shredded and wrapped around the fan so bad had to cut it little by little.



Put the new one one and it's on but doesn't spin. Looks to be a little lose still too. Thinking my tensioner might be bad too. Unless I have the opposite issue and my belt is too long? Leaked some coolant it looks like. Not a lot but still worries me.

Any tips on tensioner replacement?

Put the water pump and thermostat today. Filled with new fluid and now engine clicks and lights flash twice no engine turn though.

Battery might need a jump to start after sitting so long in cold weather? Any ideas?

Did you test the battery to read what the voltage was?

Not yet was getting real cold and dark will head back to it tomorrow.

Do yourself a favour and put it on charge. Jumping a dead battery sometimes leads to bad things.

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Battery light on and no power steering
 

Got the battery charged and it starts up but now sounds like a diesel when accelerating.

I recorded some audio https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4...3l4SjU0MTJZdlk.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4...Gp1TzhEY3pEVXc

To make room for removing the pump I had to take the secondary air pipe out which was difficult to put back on the driver side of the block since it's hard to see where it goes. Not sure if that would even cause the sound though?

Sorry for double post I'm on my phone. Could this be the Vanos issue?

If the sound was not there before check your work to see if everything is as it should be.

Everything looks good, triple checked everything. Only one hard to check is the secondary air line I removed and put back. It's in a very hard place to see.

I'm just worried about something internally since it wasn't noticed right away that the belt broke and the X5 was driven a few miles