u/aslan2poland

“I was driving on the motorway. While accelerating, there was suddenly a loud bang, like a champagne cork popping, and the car shut off. Then I could hear a strong hissing sound, like air escaping.

I’m home now. I tried cranking it — you can hear the engine trying to start, but it won’t.

There are no oil or diesel leaks.

(It’s a Citroën C4 Picasso.)

Do you think the timing belt/chain could have failed? Or is there a chance it’s something else?

I haven’t opened anything up yet

https://preview.redd.it/hu4vovz8loyg1.png?width=1424&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e57dc082e16e7d0ccef4cdf75fe91b8d8d5ed08

I play Albion Online on medium settings. I get around 71–77°C with the fans manually set to 5000 RPM. If I didn’t do that, I’d have around 75–85°C. The other components of the computer are relatively cool ( Gpu 50% and 55°C . The laptop is 8 months old, purchased in November 2025.

It doesn’t let me rest that at 35% usage it still has such temperatures — is this normal?

The laptop case is warm, not hot…

The laptop is raised 1.5 cm above the desk on a stand.

At the moment, I notice usage spikes up to 75–80%, which can be seen on the graph. This happens about once an hour, probably when loading a city. During that time, the temperature briefly reaches 89°C for a second.

I need to know if this is normal in these laptops xd I can’t sleep because of it xd

Laptop Acer Nitro V 16 ANV16-41 16" 165Hz R5 8645HS 16GB RAM 512GB Dysk SSD RTX3050 Win1