So, my newly purchased SRT8 (no mods, not even tint yet) keeps eating serpentine belts. First replaced at 40+ miles, second (this time belt and tensioning pulley) replaced at 193 miles, the day after we I bought it.
1030 miles, coming home this evening, a bit over the speed limit it went again. Heard something banging and tinging around and thought the sound odd. Then flipped my s**t as I tried to change lanes at 90+ and found I had NO power steering. And, please know, this this isn't like my old 72 Challenger with no power steering that would steer fine over 6-8 mph once everything was moving. This was like turning a John Deere tractor 4020, not running, with mostly flat tires.
3 times, twice in less than three weeks and today was an significant safety issue. Had I been on the highway flyover, which I at the last minute bypassed to take a more rural route, they would be burying me in that beautiful pink beast cuz I would have lost steering 80+ feet up on a poorly designed turn. There is VERY little in life that scares me, but this left me really tweaked out.
I am in a quandary as to how to move forward with this. The Service dept. assured me that it would be fixed last time it was serviced. Anyone else had issues chewing up their serpentine belts or the like?
1030 miles, coming home this evening, a bit over the speed limit it went again. Heard something banging and tinging around and thought the sound odd. Then flipped my s**t as I tried to change lanes at 90+ and found I had NO power steering. And, please know, this this isn't like my old 72 Challenger with no power steering that would steer fine over 6-8 mph once everything was moving. This was like turning a John Deere tractor 4020, not running, with mostly flat tires.
3 times, twice in less than three weeks and today was an significant safety issue. Had I been on the highway flyover, which I at the last minute bypassed to take a more rural route, they would be burying me in that beautiful pink beast cuz I would have lost steering 80+ feet up on a poorly designed turn. There is VERY little in life that scares me, but this left me really tweaked out.
I am in a quandary as to how to move forward with this. The Service dept. assured me that it would be fixed last time it was serviced. Anyone else had issues chewing up their serpentine belts or the like?