Q: When I start the car it sounds like the serpentine belt Makes squeaky noise

asked by on November 18, 2017

When I start the car it sounds like the Serpentine belt makes squeaky noise, then when I drive around my battery starts coming up on my gauges, then car starts to overheat and when I come to a complete stop I check under the hood and see my serpentine belt off, I want to know what is causing that and it's happened two times already.. Thank you for your help!

My car has 34500 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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