Deal on Serpentine Belt (Motorcraft)

[esclamada]

If you're in need of serpentine belt, look at amazon. I just got mine for under $10. Ordered online Sunday and got it today, and it's a new item.

http://www.amazon.com/Motorcraft-JK...UTF8&s=automotive&qid=1299128447&sr=8-2-spell

 

[EasyRhino]

If you're in need of serpentine belt, look at amazon. I just got mine for under $10. Ordered online Sunday and got it today, and it's a new item.

http://www.amazon.com/Motorcraft-JK...UTF8&s=automotive&qid=1299128447&sr=8-2-spell

One thing I will say about that - I replaced my OEM at about 112K miles, although the maintenance specs did not call for replacement.

I did this because I am old school and remember when fan belts did not last forever.

However, the 9 year old, 110K+ miles belt looked good as new, so I don;t know now why I bothered replacing it.

 

[stuartr]

Good deal thanks.

STU

 

[jaydez]

One thing I will say about that - I replaced my OEM at about 112K miles, although the maintenance specs did not call for replacement.

I did this because I am old school and remember when fan belts did not last forever.

However, the 9 year old, 110K+ miles belt looked good as new, so I don;t know now why I bothered replacing it.

cus you live in a warm, humid climate. those of us in the snow belt end up with cracks and dry belts after a few years. at 5 years and 55k mine looked scary up here in CT.

 

[EasyRhino]

cus you live in a warm, humid climate. those of us in the snow belt end up with cracks and dry belts after a few years. at 5 years and 55k mine looked scary up here in CT.

Well that's good to know - that would not have occurred to me.

I think that the owner's manual maintenance recommendations say 'inspect' only. Perhaps that infers that if you inspect it and it's shot that you are smart enough to replace it.

 

[esclamada]

cracks are visible @ 104k miles, Tireplus charges $85 to replace it (when they inspected it during the time I have my tires rotated) I saved $75

 

[jakedrew]

I run gatorback.

but thanks for the heads up.

 

[BigRondo]

Thanks for the tip.
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[kdoggy]

The belt at the link is more like $27 dollars, what am I missing here?

 

[High_Order1]

Same here.

Shawn

 

[BigRondo]

^^^^^^ x3

 

[ExPlOrErImPoRtS]

I Bet the seller saw alot of them selling and said oh **** raise the roof.

 

[kdoggy]

Looks like the seller was Amazon themselves.

 

[Popeye1959]

Amazon prices flucuate daily on certain items, especially when there are diferent vendors selling the item. The $10.00 one might have sold out and the next lowest price is the $27.00 one. Bought a Garmin from Amazon for my wife for Christmas and 2 days later it it was $38.00 cheaper.

 

[esclamada]

done R & R

It's limited, when I ordered it there were 3 in stock.


Just finished R & R my belt from amazon.
I posted the pictures on facebook. On 4.6l V8, it's impossible to do the job properly without the serpentine belt tensioner tool.

I just realized after attending the KC Auto Show things shouldn't be this way, what's up with Ford engineers designing such a a cramp bay. I look at the new Jeep Grand and wow there's way too much room to replace belts (or other components) on that truck.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=110528882348605&aid=25023

 

[Popeye1959]

As was explained to me about GM's engineers. It's not so much the engineers designing it stupidly, it's the engineers designing it to fit within the budget of the bean counters. Many times an engineering team will come up with a design, only to have it rejected because it costs a few cents too much. They have to keep redesigning it until the bean counters are confident any bit of extra cost has been shaved off the design. For a single component on a single vehicle, this seems trivial. On several hundred components on millions of vehicles, this equates out to one executive's bonus check.