Oppo Adventures in the school parking lot

Today’s exercise was diagnosing why a serpentine belt failed on one of these. Sadly not the AMG version but it was a 2000 SL500 drop top.

This site is clutch:

http://www.serpentinebeltdiagram.com/serpentine-belt-diagram-2000-mercedes-benz-sl500-v8-50-liter-engine-05831/

Cause of the failure: Seized water pump caused the previous belt to snap.