Q: The serpentine belt shredded in my brother car today while I was driving it my question is can his belt shred do to me driving sho
My brother serpentine belt shredded today we was trying to figure out would it shred when I was going a long distance away from the house or was it gonna shred naturally due to something beneath the engine?
My car has an automatic transmission.
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