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A serpentine belt lasts at least 60k miles. The worst that happens is that the ridges crack.
A shredded belt means something else. Check for a frozen water pump pulley, frozen or broken idler pulley, frozen AC compressor etc.
Maybe a dead cat!!
This. A serpentine belt shredding on a two year old car should mean something else other than normal wear and tear caused it. Unless it has high miles.
Yeah maybe but it was fine if remember sunday... on Tuesday it just happened.. I was on a straight way shiffted in to 2nd in sport mode and bamm i hurd the noise of shred. ;(
If it was really dry + a really hard shift, yea that would do it.
Cant say if your all good, never snaped a serpentine.
It looks like it slipped off & got torn.
Most of the time the belt would snap in half, least whenever ive seen one break.
One of my boys had a g35 coupes that the serpantine pulley was loose after dealer replaced his engine.
He got to it before it snapped.
Lucky for hint it was loose on, start, up.