serpentine belt and hose replacements

Kayteg1 wrote:

usersmanual wrote:

tatest wrote:
Belt life is not all that predictable, so frequent inspection is a better strategy than trying to make a maintenance decision based on years in service (for many industries, operating hours tends to work better). I am just home from a motorcoach tour in which our year-old Prevost coach threw a serpentine belt at about 30,000 miles and had to be towed 200 miles to a service center for Volvo diesels. Upside of that one was riding in a 50-year old MCI, as the final solution of our tour company's efforts to find replacement coaches. We had three different replacements in a 18 hour period.

would have been a better move to have a mobile mechanic come out and replace the belt and carry on your journey

I guess the 200 miles tow was covered by insurance?
But fact is that belts are unpredictable.
I was restoring a car with 297,000 miles and serpentine belt who look like original got replacement with new, good quality belt.
Took less than 25 miles for new belt to start pulling string and turn into a load of cords under the hood, so the 20+ years old belt went back.

I doubt that anyone who can afford a new prevost would worry about the tow cost in the first place.All I was saying is if all it needed was a simple belt why tow it 200 miles and why rent 3 different units all while simply needing a belt