Belts are Squealing...

[fahrvegnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

> 
> From: "David L. Winchell, II" <davidwinchell2@sprynet.com>
> Date: 2005/08/06 Sat PM 12:21:27 EDT
> To: "'David L. Winchell, II'" <davidwinchell2@sprynet.com>, 
> 	"'Scirocco List'" <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>

> 
> Now a question for all the Engineer types. Before I installed the new
> belts I compared them to the ones that were in (also new, but purchased
> from different stores.) As I suspected the alternator to A/C belt was
> the same width on the outside of the belt, but the inner V was
> noticeably different.  The packaging for each reads exactly the same. Is
> this normal?  I guess it is possible the wrong belt was placed in the
> package of the one I installed last week. Any other theories?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave

I would hate to classify myself as an 'engineering type', but since I tend to argue with the engineers so much...  ;-)

What was the other brand?

David

'83 GTI, Daily Driver...
'87 16V, parts car
'82 pickup, 2.0 16V, collecting dust...