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That $200 'lifetime' serpentine belt left me stranded at 30k miles
I bought into the hype about those premium belts lasting forever and it snapped in the middle of nowhere near Flagstaff. Junk that thing and just stick with a quality $40 belt that you change every 60k like clockwork. Anyone else had bad luck with 'upgraded' belts?
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elliot_harris253d ago
Hold on now, are we REALLY gonna act like one bad belt means a whole category of parts is junk? I get that getting stranded SUCKS, but a $200 belt failing at 30k could be a defective one, not a design flaw. You could've just gotten a bad luck draw, same as a basic $40 belt failing at 10k miles. Change them on schedule is good advice, but let's not pretend a cheap part is automatically more reliable just because it's cheap. Sometimes upgrades ARE just marketing fluff, but sometimes they actually work fine and people only talk about the failures.
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the_shane3d ago
That premium belt must've thought it was retiring early at 30k miles, what a lazy quitter. Learned that lesson the hard way myself with a fancy thermostat that failed in a parking lot during a heatwave. Stick with the basic parts and change them on schedule, that's the real secret to not walking home.
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