Drive belt

Summary

Source: owner's manual / last verified 2026-10-16 (2018 Chevrolet Cruze owner's manual, engine drive belt routing (opens in a new tab)).

Safety

• Keep hands clear of a belt that can move. An underhood fan can start with the engine off.
• Do not draw a belt path from memory.

Symptoms

• The routing is the figure labeled Engine Drive Belt Routing.
• No belt part number is in the maintenance replacement parts table that was read.

Diagnosis

1. Each engine has its own figure when the page shows more than one. This sheet does not trace the path.
2. An alternator bolt torque was not in that section, so an alternator job is not filed from this book.

Tools

• Clean rag

  The inspection is visual. A rag keeps oil off your hands. The book does not print a tensioner torque.

Specifications

Steps

1. 01Open the routing figure for this engine

   Engine Drive Belt Routing. If the page shows more than one engine, use the figure that matches the VIN code.

2. 02Do not guess a tension

   No tensioner torque is printed.

3. 03Do not turn this into an alternator replacement

   A removal torque for the generator was not in this section.

Common mistakes

• Tracing a belt path onto the page and calling it the factory figure.
• Using a gasoline routing on the diesel figure.

Parts and tools

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• Part

  Drive belt for a 2018 Chevrolet Cruze

  No part number is in the maintenance parts table that was read. The path is the routing figure.

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• Tool

  Clean rag

  The inspection is visual. A rag keeps oil off your hands. The book does not print a tensioner torque.

  McMaster-Carr shop towels (opens in a new tab)

Questions

Sources

• 2018 Chevrolet Cruze owner's manual, engine drive belt routing (opens in a new tab). General Motors. Published 2017-05-15. Read 2026-10-16.

Checklist and email notes

The maintenance checklist is on the site now. The email list is not sending yet, so this box will not store an address.

Other repairs on this 2018 Cruze

All Chevrolet Cruze repairs

Other years of this Chevrolet Cruze

Same repair, different model year. Use the page that matches the truck or car in the driveway. A figure on one year is not a figure for the next.

This repair on other vehicles

These guides cover the same kind of work. Their numbers belong to those vehicles, not to this one.