Continental Elite 4040362S Poly-V/Serpentine Stretch Belt Assorted One Size

• Goodyear Engineered Products are now branded Continental Elite
• Application specific for vehicles originally equipped without an accessory belt tensioner
• Quiet channel technology features unique staggered-cog profile and advanced rubber compounds to reduce chirps and squeaks
• High-strength tension members allow greater wear resistance
• Quiet channel technology increases flexibility, abrasion, and heat resistance to last longer

Continental Elite Stretch Belts are made specifically for drives that don't
have a mechanical tensioner to maintain constant belt tension or an adjustment
slot that allows for belt installation or tensioning. Since 2004, automobile
manufacturers have been designing drives using self-tensioning belts. These
drives do not have a mechanical tensioner to maintain constant belt tension
and they do not have an adjustment slot that allows belt installation and
tensioning. The Elite Stretch Belt incorporates low modulus and high
elongation technologies that allow the belt to be installed on these fixed
drive systems and provide the “self-tensioning†capabilities necessary to
maintain proper belt tension in the absence of an automatic tensioner.
Continental Elite's distinctive design uses the latest OEM technology in EPDM
compounds and a polyamide tensile cord that stretches for installation, then
recovers once installed to maintain proper tension. Although Elite Stretch
Belts look similar to Elite Poly-V belts, they are dramatically different and
not interchangeable with our Poly-V or other serpentine belts. The Continental
Elite Stretch Belt can be differentiated by its part number. The functional
Poly-V part number that includes the number of ribs and length also has an “Sâ€
suffix, indicating an Elite Stretch Belt.