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How many miles on the failed alternator? The failure of the bearing suggests over tightening of the belt, which is more often the case than not from shops. I'd check tension of the new belt and adjust accordingly.
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If caught in a similiar sitiuation could you find yourself making it home if you were, say, 200 miles from home?Daytime driving only and having a back up battery in the trunk just in case.This means cutting the belt off of coarse.
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Being a '99 car I presume it only has the one serpentine belt driving all accessories so cutting the belt would stuff you, and the auto tensioner should mean the belt was not over-tight in the first place. The bearings started to go out on my 124's alternator at 210k and I've just replaced it, not sure if it was the original as I've only had the car since 145k.
I had a similar (luckily much less expensive) issue recently in Germany, around 600 miles from home, trying to explain the part I needed to the Mercedes HQ in Stuttgart in my broken German and him trying to help in his broken English was fun... in the end we resorted to drawing pictures
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Da*n ,forget the year of car,it would work if an 85 though.
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Unfortunately, you can't cut the alternator belt off a 616/617 without also losing the waterpump. I once drove my 82 300D about 1000 miles (daylight) without a functioning alternator to get home.
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I had the power steering pump belt let go the other day ,it was like driving a old truck around turns.I now have a respect for those more expensive gates belts now .Craig ,I forgot about the water pump.
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If you had a shorter emergency belt - more like an elastic band - could you not loop it between the crankshaft shaft pulley and the water pump pulley? (You'd need it to be like an elastic band to allow it to "self tension")
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Yes, you could probably make it work with a shorter belt somehow.
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When I said "LOL" comment was clearly taken differently than I meant it. I felt the comment about if you are not willing to spend X$s to fix your Car you should not own a Mercedes overly pretentious. (That was the polite version. My first reaction was it seemed like a message from Fuherbunker.) In my opinion sending money to solve a problem has no where near the adventure offered by DIY. Spending money solve a problem is sort of like going on a Safari and staying inside of an Air Conditioned Buss for the whole trip. I guess the OP is happy with His decision.
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