2005 mazda tribute serpentine belt diagram

The serpentine belt broke on my 2015 mazda 3 and I think I might be able to drive the car home 20 miles, just curious what you guys think. The good news is the serpentine belt does not drive the water pump and I have an upgraded 76ah agm battery.
I only drove it less that a half a mile after the belt broke.
How much current does the engine draw without any accessories on? Engine is a 2.5L inline 4.
UPDATE: I drove 21 miles and it took me 50 minutes to get home. About 16 of those miles was highway driving with moderate traffic going 35-45 MPH. I had all accessories off and I tried to make all turns, stops, and accelerations as gradual as possible. Fastest speed was 55 MPH
I have a voltmeter installed on one of my amplifiers that allowed me to monitor the voltage and the lowest the voltage dropped while driving was 12.1 volts. I was able to get a jump to start the car and before starting the vehicle battery voltage was 12.7 volts which dropped to 12.3 when started.
Battery is an X2 power group 24f

"You did WHAT?!" The half-completed apartment building was a dangerous ribcage affair of a building, wind easily guiding itself thru it at higher floors, of which there were four total. The entrance office was enclosed and hard to notice, so they'd parked in the nearby crew lot and walked before talking business, which Fennel was already regretting. "Hey, it's a fullproof way to do this stuff without attracting attention, like you said." Her contact with the Syracuse Runners was this wiry albino fox, red eyes and piercings adding to the shock of his white pelt and various tattoos, like the tiger stripes on his burly arms. Fennel thought an 80s action movie was missing an antagonist somewhere, but that was the point of this whole venture; to maintain attention. "She'll come here, we beat her near to death in the ensuing ambush, then we split that reward money fifty-fifty, it's easy as that." "Yeah? Well, genius, what if she decides to just show up now?" He held up a finger as his phone suddenly beeped a phone call, which he answered with a hands-free. "Talk to me... uh huh, did you pay him? Alright cool, once you get the go-ahead from D&D, tell 'em to sit tight at their hotel room until I call 'em, then we can get everyone paid and leave town, alright? Okay, good, set up at the look-out spot once you're here, we'll be waiting. Right, see ya." He hung up the phone and gestured purposefully with both arms. "You see? Everything's coming up roses, all we gotta do now is take her down." "WITHOUT killing her." Fennel said firmly, crossing her arms. "Without killing her, yeah sure." and the gang leader turned to meet his men outside. Fennel's bodyguards came down from upstairs, putting their suit jackets back on. "We checked it out, the real party's ready to go and the last of the extra team is about 10 minutes from here." "Alright, good, some news I can count on. Has Fez sent any further information?" One of them nodded. "Yeah, apparently this red-haired cat was talking with some striper earlier, our guy on the streets saw them and figured to call it in, he said they seemed on complete speaking terms." Fennel's eyes narrowed. "Could be a possible proxy or old partner, do we got any further leads on this guy?" "Only that he's the only northern raccoon the guy's seen in town recently, should make finding him a cinch." The wolf nodded, heading onwards with her entourage in tow. "Alright, that simplifies things; you guys see him at any time before we head home, you pull him off the streets, take him into the woods and slice him, and not a trace left behind, capisce?" "You got it boss, this chick's gonna be our main concern until we break her down, then we just find this dude and ice him." "Right, Moe? Starting to like working out here after all, how 'bout that?" They chuckled maliciously and left the skeletal building, but from up on a pile of particle-board slabs, Tom's head poked out a little and he let out a huge breath, his eyes darting wildly all over the place in mind-crushing trepidation. A step went awry and he fell to land on two feet, skidding backwards a bit to crash into a stack of pallets. Fear stung his mind again as he got up quickly and headed up his escape path, making it to the trees and falling breathless behind a wide-trunked spruce, trying to calm his mind. He'd taken a detour through the woods, but there was still a good 300 paces between the route and the gas station next to the Door. "Fuck... holy fuck, they're gonna kill me... shit, this--" He sat in that one spot for a long time, feeling a terror in his chest even as he somehow fell asleep with thoughts of losing it all ringing in his mind.
Shank of night was approaching, and Karilara Sunkiller was readying herself for a real fight, one that she intended to survive. The point she'd been trained for, and trained in her own time for, was maximum movement, keep the vitals out of the fight, and shoot first. She'd gotten into her old worn-in black jeans and tank top, which she further covered with custom combat armor, meant to maintain ease of movement while covering a few more than the standard weak spots. She frowned a bit while inspecting the plates and weave, wishing she had a better alternative. Still, these fools had called her out, and leaving the engagement area wide open was a mistake... a slightly obvious mistake, but maybe that was for the best. She unrolled an old weapons satchel and began to equip the blades. Throwing knives, a folding dagger she hid at the base of her tail, and then, a hunting knife with a dark crimson hue to the blade. She unsheated it and took a look over the finished sheen of it, putting the pommel to her eye to check the tang and tip, taking some copypaper and deftly slicing it in two with nary a hiss. It had been quenched and treated in special oils to allow a dangerous level of swiftness to its edge, and it was Kari's singular trophy she retained from her days as Death's Eyes. The scarlet color of the weapon shone blood red across her face from the light in her bathroom. The weapon went back into its sheath and the whole bargain was belted to her waist, along with her trusty K90 ten-mil pistol, taken apart and prepared for the occasion earlier. It wasn't the strongest pistol she owned, but the point was to wound and finish up close; if anything, she rarely used the weapon except for a few bad jobs and her escape from DEN. The monitor of her computer had an online map of the area in question, and the ingress/egress routes drawn in dry-erase marker, one of them leading off the road and into the wooded area. It was all in her mind now, and it was time to go. Kari took a while yet to braid her hair into a short bun at the back. Her armor and pride rode on keeping her back away from the enemy at all times, so she worried little about someone grabbing it. With one final tightening of straps and stares into the mirror, Karilara Sunkiller went to leave her room, looking over it for a moment, then headed downstairs and out to her car, leaving the darkened home behind as she crawled inside herself to unlock the chains of a killer that rested patiently there.
There wasn't much to describe of the surrounding area besides the road leading to the attack site. The evening sky was overcast and lent a spooky muted tone to anything he could see. Larry, the look-out spot was in a perfect spot with a long view down the main road, which would give him ample time to call it in, get back to the others, or just hit the dirt and remain quiet while the others got the work done. Equal shares, that's what their leader had said, so this would be easy. Any second now, the binoculars, the road, and his awareness would lead to a huge payout and easy street for the rest of the year, if not, more. Sure enough, a car's lights topped the small rise before heading into the slight downgrade before rising back up into view, only the car pulled off to the right and vanished. Larry blinked, checking the road again; there wasn't any other way to the site than this, maybe he was seeing things? Larry hastily returned to his watch, waiting quietly, breath fogging in slow sequence, his weapon loaded and phone fully charged, he was ready. A blade gently touched under his chin and throat, making him lock up completely. "How many." said a voice, not asking a question. "Fuck you." The blade slid faster than he could call out with a smooth, silent metallic ring in the air and a puff of red mist, the thicker liquid behind drooling from the thin slice across his throat, deep enough to sever vocals, and so wickedly fast. Larry was gone a second after he hit the ground and laid still. Kari wiped the blood off on his coat and hurried to the site down the way.
Tom gasped wildly, his memories tangled at the ankles in dreams before reality. It all came back to him, the site, the run back, the conversation at the site, the orders to find and kill him. He almost got up and ran in a random direction, better judgement holding him in place to plan first. The gradual bones of the building were still nearby, a couple hours had passed, and from a careful peek around the tree and immediate area, he could see the cars hidden behind the portable offices for the project site. Lights were on in the first floor area, the gangers from before were visible, but just as he leaned closer, he noticed some movement on the top floor. His ears turned and listened carefully... definitely voices and movement up there. Further movement caught his eye suddenly, from on top of the portables. A dark monster of some kind was crawling across the aluminum roof, but it took on a more real shape when the red hair and tail were spotted. "You've gotta be shitting me..." he whispered, watching Kari move like a spider, hopping off silently to move around to the sides and disappear thru a small doorway in the wall there. Somewhere between panic and preservation, perverse interest was beginning to mount and urge him on towards what might be something crazy. With his heart pumping a little faster, he hurried from the woods and across to a vantage point. He almost shouted in surprise at someone staring right at him in the window he looked into, only to recognize his reflection as he ducked back down in the throes of a micro-coronary. 'A clean window... I'd only ever heard stories.' he thought, wondering for the 33rd time if this was a good idea, only to hear a voice above him. "I'm just opening it to let the breeze in here." "Just get back over here, something doesn't feel right." Tom sank lower, his shoulders somewhere behind his ankles as he held still. Movement was heard now, up the stairs to the balcony overlooking the office. The raccoon slowly stood up to try and have a look around the office area. They were silent, looking around, guns drawn... there was a squawk, a noise, like when you bump into someone, heard from up high, then near-silent taps. Blood was on the air. "Jack! What's up there, dude, hey!" called their leader, with seven of his men closing ranks. A bouncing thud was heard and something had fallen into the first floor. One of them produced a flashlight and pointed it towards the sound. It was a severed head. Sounds of terror and surprise followed, clicking of hammers, more flashlights now. Tom felt his mouth go warm and wet, portending vomit, but he held in check, looking around for the red-haired woman... something hit the ground heavily to their right and the bullets went chasing after it, the biomancers eyes growing wider as he saw it happen. The headless body had gone in one direction, Kari went the other, landing at their backs now as they turned to shoot, and she attacked. Her movements were continuous, impactful, touch-and-go, almost a dancer's grace. A knife flashed in the dark, and arms went around where it sailed past before their owner fell to their knees and collapsed. Two or three entanglements got more of the group injured or killed outright, one especially for certain as she held him as a bullet shield as a volley of blasts went her way. Gunfire erupted again, chasing the blue-eyed shadow aside, a gagging sound following from the attacker feeling a thin metal needle go into their open mouth. The attacker drew her own gun and fired twice, two shots blowing a splatter of red against the wall. There was only one left now, and barely 23 seconds had passed. "Oh FUCK this!" the fox grunted, laying down more bullets rapidly to force Kari back behind cover as he ran up the unfinished access stairs which lacked walls. The snow leopard wiped her blade off on the sleeve of one of the dead men, exhaling for a moment to assess her body quickly. In the confusion, she'd actually been attacked a few times, but seemed unhurt. She got a thumb under her sweater and lifted it, making Tom feel like looking another direction, only to see one bullet had struck home on the armor. As adrenaline ebbed, he could actually see she was breathing a bit labored; the flattened bullet was low and to the left, definitely struck a rib. Kari dug the slug loose with her knife and sheathed it, hurrying to the stairs to finish the job, leaving Tom to consider how to follow for a bit. That was when he heard the shout of 'NOW!' and football-arena lights erupt from the third floor landing. "That can't be good!" he said under his breath, moving into the atrium gingerly to try and see up above. There were probably 14 of them, all too big and almost arm to large arm. Kari began marking off targets in her mind, but it would be a terrible squeeze. It would hurt, and she was fine with that, it would really hurt, and she was fine with that... but capture was tantamount to death, so that she was not fine with, and would prevent at all costs. The hallway 'ledge' might be her only shot, but two stories down without a minute to prepare could cause a broken leg or arm. Many variables, all of them pointing to a grim conclusion. No capture. "She's cut off, get her!" someone shouted, and they came at her and she came at them. A haymaker greeted her first, dodged, a second attack stopped in a spray of blood as she clawed at the exposed side, aiming a hard kick up at the third, but three more were already upon her. Kari raked out and hissed, putting her foot hard into the side of an exposed knee to extend in sideways. The owner shrieked in pain, but Kari felt two blows, and another begin hitting home, so she dove through the opening and tried to get clear from the four behind them. Another fist cut across her face, all the shouting and yelling from her and them was gathering into a fever pitch, she was throwing fists and kicks, but could barely see from the mob striking at her from all directions. Someone pulled her back, and the racket was muffled by bodies as she was kicked at from the left and right, her arms crossed over her face and chest to guard. One hand closed around something, a brick, and she managed to hold it hard and punch its dense weight into what shins she could, managing to make enough room to get back up and go on the attack again, putting two of them down hard with savage brick-slams to the head. Suddenly, an explosion went off behind her and she went down to barely stop on one knee: her back stung like it had been ripped off and replaced again, she'd been shot and it went thru the armor just behind her right shoulder. Winded and wounded, she collapsed to the floor, motionless, hair hanging from the tight braids. The assembled attackers stayed around her, out of breath and some clutching at hard injuries. "Fuck... aaahh-- fuck, the bleeding won't stop.." "Did we get her? Someone make sure she's still breathing." "Hold still, man, I think your skin is flapping off." "AAAAHH! DON'T TOUCH IT!" "Moe! Hey, someone get the med kit, he's not breathing!" The damage sustained from the attacks were enough to hopefully repair, but Kari was facedown and feeling her body alive with pain, wisely trying to breathe shallow to appear harmless. Hands suddenly grasped her from behind and hauled her around on her knees, bent before the doorway as her breathing came in low, labored gasps. It hadn't gone well, and there could be more in reserve. What the feline wasn't expecting to see was Fennel, who had flipped her off only two days ago now, stepping out of the shadowed doorway to close the distance. A zip-tie closed at Kari's wrists and her odds shrank significantly. Fennel put a finger under the snow leopards chin to meet her face-to-face. "Hey, bitch, guess you've been having a pretty nice fuckin' time of it, yeah?" Heavy breathing only responded, Kari's face contorted in anger. "Well, don't expect us to lose any sleep over those guys you killed or anyone in your career, no... we're here because one specific job." Kari felt inwardly lucky; this Fennel woman seemed to have a need to talk, a perfect way to buy time. It was a long time ago, but she had ways of escaping zip-ties. "You're gonna have to refresh my memory here, sweetheart," she managed, coughing only once, "I've killed a lot of people." Fennel's eyes narrowed and she began to pace, Kari barely resisting rolling her eyes at this move. "2005, it was," said the wolf, "an old villa house in a secluded area of Campigliano, the home of a very important old man, one Allesandro Gabriele Russo." Kari thought for a moment, her ears pointing up as she pretended to vaguely remember "Oh, him! Head of a rogue crime syndicate that was attempting to muscle in on the Cosa Nostra operations setting up in Salerno. Yeah, entire crew found dead on the scene, and apparent leader stabbed once and left burning in a hearth like the old trash bag he was, THAT Allesandro Gabriele Russo?" Fennel looked beyond enraged, and decided to let a hard kick to Kari's nose provide the rebuttal. Her face exploded in cold pain, she felt something crunch in her nose and she bent forward, nearly falling onto the poured concrete to cough again, blood pouring from her onto the floor. She laughed somehow and leaned back as she sat up, feeling her options shrinking and somehow, not minding so much, or so it appeared and sounded. "Ha ha, heh.. kffh hnhh... oh wow, I haven't been beaten like this since prom night. Look, if you're gonna kill me or take me back to them for the reward, let's hurry it up already, can we?" Composure managed to return to the wolf woman's attitude and she came closer again to hunker down with a psychotic glint in her eye. "Oh, it'd be easy and a better use of time, no doubt. But you see, you killed my great grandfather, ruined my family's wealth in the subsequent criminal charges and all, and broke my father's heart... so no, we're not going anywhere." She had cupped Kari's cheek here before patting it gently and getting up again. "You gotta understand two things I got to work with here: one, the contact from DEN just said alive, not necessarily intact, and two, when I put the word out for people interested in this gig, I made sure to find some scum, I mean real monsters here, the kind of people that can't be trusted with pictures of a playground." There was sinister chuckles and calls from behind Kari and she began to feel a sting of actual worry, trying to hurry up with her wrists. "Once these disgusting reprobates are done holding you down and violating your fucking brain to pieces, we're gonna take some of these here medical tools and cut you down to size by numbers. We even brought a doctor to make sure you're alive when we toss what's left at the feet of this Bear guy." 'Come on, hands...' Kari thought wildly, almost stuck in the zip-ties now. Fennel smiled viciously, her back teeth exposed in the killers grin. "Gotta admit, this'll be fun to watch. Alright, you sick fucks, she's all yours." As a foot was pressed to her shoulder, Kari opted to make a quiet, scared noise all of a sudden. The others were still coming closer, but Fennel held up a palm and they stopped. "What?" said Fennel. Kari shook and trembled, feeling the terrible visions the imagination produced of her damnable fate. "Oh god, it's the end... let me just say something fast." The wolf huffed a bark of laughter and crouched close, shaking her head. "Always such badasses until you clip those wings... what is it, bitch?" "The... oh god-" and she whined a little, her head hung and trying to breathe, "Just remember this next time you have to kill someone, please!" "What about it, cunt?" Kari's palm slid up the other and relocated into place, and she smiled a skull-like grin.
"Just kill them."
All at once, she sprung out onto Fennel's torso like a cobra, her free hands scratching and raking at whatever she could reach, the wolf's going berserk as she shouted in pain while clawing and kicking at the serpentine assailant. The others recovered from the stunning instant and moved to attack her, but faltered as Fennel's screams became a wild shriek of agony, rising in pitch as Kari's head pulled back, one blood-soaked paw holding her down. Clamped in her sharp teeth, at the end of a long, stretched line of viscera and optic nerve, was a dark brown eyeball, coming free with a snap. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHAAAAAAA!!" Kari looked coldly into Fennel's shocked face as the moment froze in aghast eternity, her jaws holding the little fleshy ball up before smiling again and chomping it with a wet splatter and taking off to run to the stairs to the third floor. The goons were coming, she had to hurry. Clamored voices from below; they'd cut off the stairwell. Kari lungs were working like bellows as she gained distance down a 3rd story hall. With a little luck, the scaffolding could be a way down, if she had one good jump in her. It was on the left side of the building, she was almost there as the footsteps neared from behind, but the incomplete walls vanished fast and the jump was before her. 'Jump, take the landing, roll with the impact.' she hurriedly thought before turning to get a sprinting start back. As she turned, it all happened in slow motion. The loading mechanism advanced a shell into the barrel, and the quiet clicking of the trigger pull barely registered before there was an explosion and an impact that knocked wind and mind from her. She flew backwards so suddenly, the snow leopard might've seen her own tail. She tried to turn in mid air, but only glanced her arm across an unseen fixed pipe. It was definitely broken, and the pain threatened to blur out her senses. She turned more now and felt a dull explosion at her back this time, and the limit was reached. Her autonomic system seemed to have shut her down for reboot, and when she fell with a thwack to the poured cement below, she barely felt anything. One weak attempt at rising proved nothing and the lights went out all at once, leaving her at the worlds' mercy.

• WARNING!!! Do this at your own risk. I am just a guy trying to save a few hundred bucks. I purchased the belt from https://www.kia.parts. It is a KIA dealership in Arizona the sells the OEM parts.

Instructions:

• Disconnect battery.
  
• Make a diagram of the serpentine belt orientation. You can also find this online.
  
• I removed the one 10mm(I think) screw/bolt holding down those aluminum looking AC lines that run along the side of the engine. I also disconnected that electronic connection near that area of the screw to give me a bit more room with my wrench.
  
• You can also remove the bottom engine cover to gain access to the pulleys from the bottom, but I chose not to because it looked like a lot of screws.
  
• I used a regular 17mm offset wrench to release tension on the belt for removal. I tried free tool loans from AutoZone, pepboys, and O’reillys, but none had a 17mm socket and they all are too thick for the limited amount space that is given. I believe Harbor Freight has the best price for the offset wrench set.
  
• When installing the new belt, I began from the back and moved forward towards the front so that the AC Compressor is the last thing the belt goes onto.
  
• I placed the floor Jack handle/stick down the back side of the crank pulley to keep the belt from coming off the crank pulley. Having an extra set off hands helps a lot, at least for me it did(thank you, nephew!).
  
• Make sure you start your wrench as parallel to the ground as possible, this part was laborious for me. To get the wrench to sit properly onto the tensioner nut. Having fat hands doesn’t help.
  
• I put as much of the belt over the AC compressor as possible, enough so that when you release the wrench/tensioner, the wrench will not move. I still needed more belt play to get it completely over the AC Compressor.
  
• I readjusted the wrench on the tensioner so that the wrench is close to parallel to the ground.
  
• I lifted up on the wrench and properly finished installing the belt over the AC Compressor.
  
• Triple check the belt placement and orientation. Remove jack handle(if used on crank pulley).
  
• Put back that 10mm screw that holds down the aluminum ac lines.
  
• reconnect the black cable, and your are done.
  

Does anyone know where I can find the belt diagram for a 6110M? My husband thought he could remember how it was routed before he removed the old belt, but once faced with all of the pulleys scattered everywhere he regretted that decision 😅

I've got a 2005 Mazda Tribute with some really weird problems with hesitation/lack of power, and I've even had the oil pressure light come on briefly. I'm thinking that the ECM ECU PCM may have lost it's mind, but I'm a shade tree mechanic and this is out of my paygrade, thus this post.
I need a local guy with a good reputation who is reasonable. Not going to a dealer; I just don't trust them. But I will pay fair for someone that either has a good reputation or will simply guarantee the diagnosis. I'm hoping that I can fix it mostly myself after the diagnosis, even if it is the ECM ECU PCM. I don't want to pay someone $150/hour to work a wrench when I can do that for nothing.
I could post more details about the problems, but I'm not looking for someone on Reddit here to solve it in the comments for free, I actually want to pay somebody that knows what they are doing for the solution.

Hello, I have a 2009 Kia Spectra Ex with 2.0 DOHC 4cyl engine. I have been hearing a terrible grinding noise under the hood for past couple of weeks and have found the source to be the AC compressor pulley. When I watch it at idle, the pulley either spins slowly or stops for a few seconds then does a half spin and stops again. There is some nasty grinding going on. I cannot move it by hand when engine is off and there is no difference qhen the AC is off or on.
So I live in an area where I dont need AC, and I would happily live without it if I could get the noise to go away. I am also scqred the belt will snap and cause some damage while driving.
This engine appears to have 3 serpentine belts, one from the crank to the generator and water pump, one between water pump and power steering and then one from crank to AC pulley. The one from crank to AC pulley rides along the top of, but not around another pulley labeled "T" in the diagram. Basically what I want to know is, does T stand for timing? If this belt is not going around a pulley but rather on top of it, will removing thw belt hurt something important? and could I just cut this belt and drive without AC and the grinding noise?
Ive been looking all over the internet for help, but cant seem to find anything and hoping that someone out there has seen this before in a Spectra.
Thanks!

so recently i took my car to the mechanic for a diagnoses on an unrelated issue, but the belt squeaked a lot so I loosened it. I repaired the car and threw 2 new cam position sensors and a crank sensor. The car has driven really well after repairing and only when i gas it the car stutters completely. I’m thinking the belts slipping because everytime i go to tighten it the misfire happens at a higher rpm. I feel like I keep having to tighten it though, when it’s at a high rpm slip, VDC, and CEL come on. saying it’s a camshaft position sensor. i’m assuming it is the serpentine but can this cause damage to the Sensors? it’s a 2005 G35 coupe (AT)
(edit) SOLVED : when i tightened the serpentine belt i loosened the pulley screw a little too much causing it to move off of the screw attaching it to the tensioner. it would just wobble at high RPM making the belt slip. Also i should’ve mention it didn’t stutter, it wouldn’t continue revving and the car would come down to a rpm where i could let back on the gas and drive (when the belt stopped slipping) so my bad there.

Alright so I have a 2005 rx8 automatic.
History: I've owned it for 6-7 years now, previous owner and I both parked the car every winter (live in the rust belt). There is about 20k miles on the engine now (Mazda replaced at 55k) and 80k on the rest of the car, I have done the oil change once a year, spark plugs in 2018 and this year. Deleted the cat in 2017. Mazda recall replaced the fuel pump sealing rings and the filter kit in 2017 (was not acting up was just up for recall). Been premixing since day I bought it.
Issue: I took the car out this year and was driving it almost daily for a week or 2 until on the way home it start bucking while trying to accelerate gently (2-3k rpms, going 10-30mph). I was able to let off on the gas enough to drive but not stall the engine and get home the last few blocks.
I parked it for a few days, put new spark plugs in as I was planning on doing them anyways. I then drove it for about a week with no problems. Then the same thing happened but I was entering a hill and it stalled out completely when trying to accelerate up the hill (in a lurching, surging, jolting way when trying to accelerate) as if I was pushing the gas down and letting go quickly. I tried 3 times over 5 min to start the car and it wouldn't fire up. Got it towed off the hill and home. Next morning fired it up and started instantly, test drove fine, redlines etc.
Left it parked for a week and drove it to mazda, they say they don't know what to look into since it's "intermittent". They found a little bit of debris in the airbox/MAF area and cleaned it out, and I could request a fuel pump testing or test on vacuum lines per customer request but no guarantees as not acting up while in the shop.
Drove it home from the dealership and a few miles away from home it started bogging when trying to accelerate to the point I knew it would stall if pushed it passed 3k rpms. Pulled over and turned it off for 25 min. Started it up and ran okay and started acting up again a handful of blocks from home (feathering the gas pedal only enough to not stall out on the hill, and when speeding up from stop signs/turns)
Info: CEL is on for 02 sensor since no cat and no other codes. Car had under 1/4 tank of gas every time it has occurred. I have an obdII Bluetooth reader I could hook up to watch things on torque pro but not sure exactly what to look for or pinpoint.
My opinion: Seems as if the fuel pump is going out, a vacuum leak somewhere likely wouldn't be "intermittent" or happen once it has been driven for a while.
HeLp: Any productive input welcome! Trying to pinpoint the issue to get it fixed without paying for unneeded testing by mazda.
Update: I pulled the 4 coils and #3 and #4 have heat marks on the metal bracket. #4 has white burn mark on the bottom of the coil itself. Put 4 new coils on and drove around no problem for 3 hours until hit under a quarter tank then shit hit the fan. Stopped at gas station for 3 gallons. Car was back to normal. Fuel pump it is

Hello, I need help. I have a 2007 Dodge caliber with a 2.0 engine. I had to replace my alternator and I cannot get my serpentine belt to fit the diagram and everything I followed but it’s about an inch too short I have bought two serpentine belts and neither one fits any recommendations on how to get the belt to fit. The serpentine belt fits the 2.0 and the 2.4 engine. if anybody has had this issue any recommendation would be really appreciated.

I got the belt replaced on a 2005 camry a year or so ago and then noticed it squeaks the first few minutes I'm driving in the mornings and then stops.
I forgot to bring it back to ask them and then just got used to it and forgot about it, but now I'm getting ready to sell it and don't want to cover up a problem if there is one.
What would cause that? Is it a problem I should address or just a normal quirk and I can safely ignore it?
Thanks!

Hi All,
Vehicle: Mazda Tribute 2005 3.0L - Auto
Issue:
Vehicle was having intermittent power response whilst driving, would seam to fall out of gear and then back in (its an auto). After researching about it, it looked to point to the range selector / neutral switch. Went to start the car to help diagnose a bit more and found that the car would always be in drive no matter what was selected.
Park (lurched forward) Reverse (forward) Drive (forward) 2 (forward) 1 (forward)
When I let the car warm up a bit, this behaviour subsided a bit, and the pull forward in Reverse seamed to stop.
Further troubleshooting performed:
- Inspected shift linkage at both ends. On Shift it is nicely and securely clipped in. On transmission it is also securely clipped in. Moved through the gears and watched the selector freely move.
- Started Car in Park and neutral, and car starts. Car does not start in R, D, 2, 1 which looks like the transmissions range sensor / neutral switch atleast for that safety part appears to be working.
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The symptoms that were described, I really though and hope its a faulty transmissions range selector switch/ neutral switch, but I can't describe the new behaviour of the car only being stuck in forward. I imagined that since the tranmissions selector was connected properly via the shift linkage to the shifter, it would physically place the transmission gear selector in the proper position - but I dont know much about that. Just seamed logical ...
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Ps this is the sister vehicle of the Ford Escape

So, car's a 1.8 Mazda5 2010 (CR19). It's engine was dead, it's getting a replacement put in from a Mazda 6 next week. The issue is, the 6 mounts the AC compressor in a different location than the 5. The mechanic intended to carry over the compressor mount from the original engine, but the mount was where a rod exited the block, so can't do it, and I don't wanna wait another month to find a replacement. I kinda like AC though, especially in humid weather.
So, I see four (and a half) options;
Option A - Put up with no AC. Pros: cheap. Cons: No AC
Option B - look for the 5-style mount. Pros: Can use original compressor and hoses. Cons: Will take ages to find the mount, it's hard to get.
Option C - Buy and fit a 6 compressor on the mounting points on the bock of the 6 engine. Pros: Cheaper, a used compressor is ~80€. Cons: Might not fit under the 5 intake. Would need a different length of serpentine belt that's "custom". Would need new AC hoses made up
Option D: High-amp alternator and an electric compressor Pros: More amp capacity for other stuff, can easily take the two out if I wanna reuse them somewhere else. Cons: Priceyyyy, and new hoses, and kinda wary of a 80-amp cable running accross the engine bay live most of the time.
Option E: Do something stupid and cost-insensitive like adapting a compressor setup from another car with new pulleys. Pros: Bragging point. Cons: A lot
What do you guys/gals think?

Finding myself on the market for a new car, and looking for recommendations from the community. Let me explain:
I currently drive an 07 Nissan Altima 2.5 S, 195000 miles. It still runs well, but it's starting to hit that phase where random breaks occur. Recently a tension clasp snapped on the serpentine belt, which also snapped the serpentine belt while driving, surprise $600 fix :/
What do I need? I live in Michigan, so I need something that can operate in peak summer and DEEP winter. Something with closer to 100K than 200k mileage. I don't do much driving usually, 30 some minutes everyday to/from work total, but when I do, I enjoy driving, so ideally I'd like something somewhat 'sporty.' My Altima has 170HP and feels very zippy for a 4 cyl, and I don't want to dip too much below that if possible. Also, I'm a BIG BOI (6'4", 370lbs) so I need something with an interior to accommodate me (NO MOON ROOFS).
I'm looking at $5-6K down, and around $15K for a used vehicle. Although with the market as it is, I've also been looking at a few New options in the $20K range, likely from Hyundai or Mazda.
Any light you could shed to narrow my search down would be GREATLY appreciated!

I found a crack today in my serpentine belt. I am going to get it replaced. Is this something that I should get done at a professional shop? I am going to call and get quotes tomorrow. I am decently mechanically inclined (using YouTube) and it looked like quite a pain in the butt. People also recommend doing the water pump belt and the tensioner at the same time. Is this correct advice? (125K miles)

I have a 2010 Mazda 3 Hatchback 2.5 L and I found out today that I have a faulty alternator that is not charging the battery properly (The alternator is at around 25 - 50 AMPS at load where it should be at around 100 AMPS).
I asked a mechanic nearby and was quoted approximately $850 CAD for the alternator and serpentine belt replacement.
I was pretty confident in being able to replace the alternator by myself so I was calling local auto part (Lordco) shops and found out that alternator itself costed around $530 CAD and the serpentine belt costed around $80 CAD which totals to around $610 CAD.
I figured that's also a lot so I did some more research and found some re-manufactured alternators on Rock Auto which ranged from $150 to $250 for the alternator.
Links for the alternators:

1. Alternator 1
2. Alternator 2

Also another problem is that I'm moving to Toronto from Vancouver in a week for about 3 months and I'm wondering if it's okay for me to leave the car sitting for that long. (Obviously I will have the battery unplugged and fill it up with fuel and stuff) So if I did decide to order the re-manufactured alternators, it wouldn't come on time and I would have to fix it after I come back from Toronto.
With all the in mind, I was wondering which options I should take? I've never DIY'ed an alternator swap, but am pretty comfortable with mechanical stuff (Had a project RX-8 last year to work on). I don't know how reliable re-manufactured alternators are despite the descriptions and since buying from Lordco only makes ~$100 difference from the mechanics, I could just get it done by them.
Let me know your guys' input as any experience would help me decide what to do!

I have a 2010 Mazda 3 Hatchback 2.5 L and I found out today that I have a faulty alternator that is not charging the battery properly (The alternator is at around 25 - 50 AMPS at load where it should be at around 100 AMPS).
I asked a mechanic nearby and was quoted approximately $850 CAD for the alternator and serpentine belt replacement.
I was pretty confident in being able to replace the alternator by myself so I was calling local auto part (Lordco) shops and found out that alternator itself costed around $530 CAD and the serpentine belt costed around $80 CAD which totals to around $610 CAD.
I figured that's also a lot so I did some more research and found some re-manufactured alternators on Rock Auto which ranged from $150 to $250 for the alternator.
Links for the alternators:

1. Alternator 1
2. Alternator 2

Also another problem is that I'm moving to Toronto from Vancouver in a week for about 3 months and I'm wondering if it's okay for me to leave the car sitting for that long. (Obviously I will have the battery unplugged and fill it up with fuel and stuff) So if I did decide to order the re-manufactured alternators, it wouldn't come on time and I would have to fix it after I come back from Toronto.
With all the in mind, I was wondering which options I should take? I've never DIY'ed an alternator swap, but am pretty comfortable with mechanical stuff (Had a project RX-8 last year to work on). I don't know how reliable re-manufactured alternators are despite the descriptions and since buying from Lordco only makes ~$100 difference from the mechanics, I could just get it done by them.
Let me know your guys' input as any experience would help me decide what to do!