The Yaris sucks.

[A-Dingo-Ate-My-Baby]

Originally Posted by firemachine69

Blew the serpentine belt with a hair under 39k miles.


Left me stranded and delayed my trip home by five hours, plus a bill for a new belt and 3/4's hour labour - on a Sunday. At least Toyota gave me a one-time-only courtesy tow (just past warranty).


Whichever engineer decided that the Yaris should not have an automatic tension adjustment should be shot, plain and simple. Re-tightening the belt every oil change, with a new belt every 30k miles (per my dealership's service manager) should not be SOP. That's just ungodly stupid.


/End rant.

haven't been around cars much, eh ?

MOST engines never have a floating tensioner on the accessory belt.

only the timing belts have floating tensioners.

accessory belts need to have occasional static tension checks
with a tensiometer, adjusted accordingly, then locked in place