Is every 24,000 miles correct for replacing serp belt?

[thepartsmancometh]

Belts are not preventative maintenance; change when cracked or damaged. The only exception to this, is if the belt is off anyway (IE: for water pump change or something) and the car has a lot of miles on it. In that situation, I'd replace it while its off just to save the labor.

Our 08 Yaris just rolled to 58000 today and is still on the original belt.

[Flipper_1938]

Originally Posted by thepartsmancometh

Belts are not preventative maintenance.

Belts are preventive maintenace items. If a belt fails at highway speeds, you run the risk of trashing the motor or at the very least, being stuck on the side of the road.

You can monitor belts and hoses to try and get the most out of them you can, but the goal is to replace them before they fail.

[thepartsmancometh]

Originally Posted by Flipper_1938

Belts are preventive maintenace items. If a belt fails at highway speeds, you run the risk of trashing the motor or at the very least, being stuck on the side of the road.

You can monitor belts and hoses to try and get the most out of them you can, but the goal is to replace them before they fail.

perhaps I didn't word this how I intended; the inspection is preventative. By preventative, I was trying to imply that the belt is not replaced at a certain predetermined mileage or age "just because" of its mileage or age.