RE: Serpentine belt - anybody understand NAPA pricing?

From: Mark Jackson (stencil1301@msn.com)
Date: Thu Apr 28 2011 - 17:38:44 EDT


There's probably a bottle of headlight fluid in there. But seriously, unless they've included a special tool in there, this would be one of the few cases where the sum of the parts individually is less than the sum of the whole.
 
> From: info@zaccaria-pinball.com
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: Serpentine belt - anybody understand NAPA pricing?
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:29:41 -0500
>
>
> I need a serpentine belt (125K miles, probably never been changed, cracking is
> evident, etc.). So I'm looking at NAPA's web site over lunch to see what they
> have available.
>
> There's a "belt and tensioner kit" (p/n DBK DBK070975) for $190.79.
>
> This seems to consist of their belt (p/n NBH-25070905, $48.71), belt tensioner
> (p/n NBH-38116, $76.95), and idler pulley (p/n NBH-38033, $30.29). Adding
> those up, it appears that the box the kit comes in must be worth $34.84. Is
> there something else in the kit that I'm not seeing?
>
                                               



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