Serpentine belts. What is labor hours on replacing. Not timing

its fairly straight forward to do if you know your way around a tool box. a bit fiddly but otherwise ok. time to take in the dealer is booked at 40 mins. but id say on your drive jacked up 1h 30m. dont forget to draw a plan of where the belt goes ie around the pulleys. if you get stuck and need a picture or you need to swear at someone email me [email protected]. email answered in 30 mins during daylight hours. good luck and please leave a comment and thumbs up. cheers

Hi there, The serpentine belt is very easy to replace and should not even take an hour. -Alex

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Were you not told all that?

When did they start putting gold in a serpentine belt? The serpentine belt only cost about $40 dollars tops. Who told you $4000.00 for this? If it was a shop or a mechanic PLEASE finds a new shop or Mechanic. You could replace the whole front end for that amount of money. I recommend 2 things. 1. Find a different shop or mechanic for doing your repairs the one that told you this didn't give you the whole story as to what they think is wrong. 2. Get a Haynes or Chilton's repair manual on your vehicle model and year from Auto Zone or Advance Auto so you have a better idea of what the problem could be based on the symptoms you are seeing.

As another option, you could post a description of what was happening that made you take the vehicle to a shop to begin with and we could possibly narrow this down to a specific problem that could be fixed. Fact is for 4k I can replace an engine or rebuild one and pocket a lot of money. Even if you had to replace the Alternator ($200), Water Pump($140), AC Compressor ($400), Power Steering Pump ($200), Harmonic Balance Pulley ($50), and Tension Pulley($60), which is essentially everything that is pulley driven on the front of the engine you only come to $1040 in parts add another $1000 in labor and you still don't get to $4000. The serpentine belt itself only cost about $40 in most areas and depending on what has to be removed to replace it about an hour in labor so depending on where you live, to have a shop replace the Serpentine belt would cost about $140 max.

60. to 120. depending on the cost of labor in your area.

600 and up the breaks are realativly easy i say check u tub for some instructional videos

4 hours

The belt will be about a half hour labor. I'd imagine the rear main seal would run about 4-5 hours, maybe more.

the belt around $40 US, the labor about 1/2 hour, this assumes u have no problems with the pulleys or bearing's for the belt. this is called the Serpentine accessory drive belt

It's a complicated job, and usually takes about 8 hours to do the full service if you're familiar with the car's mechanicals, you have a good array of tools (air tools help a lot), you're familiar with what you're doing, and with how to disassemble everything (including removing the front of the car - I'm not joking). There's more to the job than just the belt too - you need to replace the timing belt, timing tensioner, water pump, thermostat, serpentine belt, and serpentine tensioner. If your cam seals are leaking (which is also known to happen), you'd need those and plan for a couple more hours as well, due to the care that must be taken not to scratch or score the cam end caps.