Driving along a dual carriageway and the power steering seems to go completely - accompanied by a battery light on the left. Then get the ABS and ESP light on. Then all the lights flash up for the gearbox. Speedo, rev counter and climate control go off. Finally get a big exclamation mark in the Maxidot display thing, and the car dies completely (on the M69).
Turns out the belt thing from the alternator had come away completely, so the car was shutting everything down that used power.
Is this likely to have done any damage, and what is this likely to cost to be sorted? Looks fairly inaccessible down there. Not sure if the tensioner is at fault.
Had to have the car dropped off at Lion Garage (VAG specialist) so hopefully will know more tomorrow.
When we started the journey, there was a metal hoop thing under the car - I assumed I'd just gone over something, but was this off the car? Was similiar thickness to a coat hanger and it had a kink in it which I thought was to clip it on to a bin or something. Hopefully totally irrelevant, but I'll mention just in case this holds the engine together!
