Just thought I would share this. I thought I was having a bad day when I went to get my second puncture in a fortnight to be fixed.

Whilst stood on the forecourt of the garage a horrible rattle and bang and the Range Rover stopped in the traffic on the street.

The fan coupling was about 10 metres up the street.

Under the bonnet looked like the Texas Chainsaw engine bay massacre.

Made me feel better about my puncture anyway.

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wow

No need for a fan when you have bonnet vents!

Holy shit!

Holey bonnet!!

Expense !

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Originally posted by Ben_Copeland
Holy shit!

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Failure of the viscous couplings on these is quite common. If they lock up with age they overspeed the fan which can let go with a lot of force.

Now we know how Claire's fingers felt when they introduced themselves to the fan blades.
How's the hand coming along Claire? Hope you are getting back to normal.

Just as well the axis is horizontal, Ive not seen a fan let go and come through the bonnet before....

Many years ago I was behind a mate driving Sunbeam Rapier travelling pretty fast when he slowed down suddenly as something shot up from his car, on stopping we found he had lost a fan blade through his bonnet. In those days most cars had steel fans. Also had a Midget that suddenly started vibrating very badly , turned out a fan blade had broken and got stuck in the chassis crossmember rapidly bending the other 3 blades