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I found that when changing belts, the AC belt is now 13mm where the old ones (original OEM belts from the factory) were spec'd out to be 12.5mm wide. I measured my old belt and it was actually 11.1mm wide and the new belt was 14.3mm wide. The is correct per the dealer but this difference makes it very difficult to re-align the compressor bolts. This extra width keeps the belt from fully sitting in the pulleys and effectively creates a "shorter belt". I found you need to remove the small bolt that holds the AC line bracket to the brace. This allows you to line up the front 2 bolts. Once the front two are in and the nuts are loosly on the bolts, re-install the short bracket bolt. I had to pull the brace to the left as the whole compessor was 1/2" more to the left with the new "shorter" belts vs. the old belts. You can now tighten the belt tension bolt. BTW, to get the right rear nut on the bolt, I made an "L" shaped tool out of cardboard, glued the nut to the short part of the "L" and then guided the nut onto the bolt. This is needed as this is a blind installation and I could not get my hand/fingers back there to hold the nut.