When did they start putting gold in a serpentine belt? The serpentine belt only cost about $40 dollars tops. Who told you $4000.00 for this? If it was a shop or a mechanic PLEASE finds a new shop or Mechanic. You could replace the whole front end for that amount of money. I recommend 2 things. 1. Find a different shop or mechanic for doing your repairs the one that told you this didn't give you the whole story as to what they think is wrong. 2. Get a Haynes or Chilton's repair manual on your vehicle model and year from Auto Zone or Advance Auto so you have a better idea of what the problem could be based on the symptoms you are seeing.
As another option, you could post a description of what was happening that made you take the vehicle to a shop to begin with and we could possibly narrow this down to a specific problem that could be fixed. Fact is for 4k I can replace an engine or rebuild one and pocket a lot of money. Even if you had to replace the Alternator ($200), Water Pump($140), AC Compressor ($400), Power Steering Pump ($200), Harmonic Balance Pulley ($50), and Tension Pulley($60), which is essentially everything that is pulley driven on the front of the engine you only come to $1040 in parts add another $1000 in labor and you still don't get to $4000. The serpentine belt itself only cost about $40 in most areas and depending on what has to be removed to replace it about an hour in labor so depending on where you live, to have a shop replace the Serpentine belt would cost about $140 max.
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