So while on the highway I had my accessory belt snap. While trying to get out of the highway coolant temps shot up reaching max temp on the gauge. No coolant overflowed but what else should I look for? Did I damage anything?

 

Probably not. I lost a water line to the turbo once. Motor got up to about 255*, it was fine. If you didn't boil over I'm sure it's fine.

 

you are lucky... I had the acc belt snap and get under the cambelt... wiping out the whole engine in process..

 

Wow that sucks. I was in rush hour traffic and pretty much at a stand still when it snapped. I exited the highway and shut the car off and let it coast down hill.

 

curious how this happened.. and how it can be prevented

 

It's probably just old. How many miles did it have until it snapped?

 

Almost 90k on the stock one. Funny thing is I had made an appointment at RRE yesterday morning.

 

My OEM belt was looking tattered at 45K miles.

 

Wow me too ha, heck yea he's lucky but then again he probably has a full timing cover over his t-belt and gears too.

Lesson learned for me.

 

Are you sure it wasn't the Harmonic balancer's belt?