[s-cars] Subject: Serp belt woes

[Tom Winter]

Aaron - I'm no expert, but I'd expect the tensioner to last longer than
that. I did have some noise issues from a serp belt, not a rattling, but it
was making noise (and then broke, solving the noise problem! LOL!).

Perhaps you'll get lucky on this one and it will be just the belt. You said
you ran the car without the tensioner - I'm not sure how you did this - and
there was no noise under these conditions. But I'm wondering if the other
pulleys in the system aren't worth taking a close look at. Perhaps when the
belt is under tension, they are the source of the problem. Just a thought. .
.

Good luck.

Tom
'95 S6 Avant, waiting on parts