serpentine belt and hose replacements
When do you replace serpintine belt and radiator hoses on diesel engines? Last year I replaced all heater hoses & tank radiator hoses. Autos are generally 5 years.
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rgatijnet1 wrote:
Back when Timken made the bearings in the USA, you could expect them to last much longer. Now that some manufacturers have replaced them with the cheaper garbage from China, you can expect failure to come sooner.
You are right about good quality Timken, but the issue is wider spread.
Driving Mercedes for couple of decades, the German-made SKF bearing seem to drop quality as well. I had older MB cars with 300k miles and original bearings.
Now on our 2004 model, the idler pulley bearing seized at 150k.
But when I read, lot of Mercedes parts are made in Czech republic, Poland, France.
I hope wheel bearings will not have the same issues.
