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Cheaper to get a tow or call a roadside mechanic?
its a super simple repair: by serpentine belt slipped off of a pully, and I have no tools to ease the belt tensioner to put it back on.
i'm am about 5 miles from the nearest repair place, but cannot limp there as I would overheat and have no power steering assist.
I googled a roadside repair place, where they come to you like a locksmith does and does the work on site, but don't know their rates.
another option us to pay a towing service to tow me to a garage, then pay the garage to do this 2 minute repair.
so, the question is: which one would in the end cost less, typically. i'm wondering if the rates of an on sight repair guy is more than a tow and repair. (its just seems silly to get a tow for a freaking belt)
4 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
Howard! The WATER PUMP Howard NO!
The road side guy probably hasn't got the belt for your car.
Ask... and the price to install it. Total price.
- josephrob2003Lv 79 years ago
the tow truck company will charge you, and the garage will charge you at least an hours labour, surely a mobile mechanic should be cheaper, I would enquire, and say exactly whats needed so no extra cost, why not get a quote from the garage, and get the mobile guy to beat it?' he will if he wants the work
- Howard LLv 79 years ago
You should have no trouble driving 5 miles without the belt. As long as the car is moving you shouldn't have a problem with overheating. On cars with electric fans they don't even turn on most of the time. Your steering will be harder to turn but you won't do any damage driving without power steering.
