On a new-ish car a competent mechanic shouldn't spend more than an hour or two on this really. Drop the front swaybar out of the way, maybe pull the radiator fan assembly out of the way, lock up the flywheel and break the tough-ish crankshaft bolt loose, then it's just a simple matter of replacing the pulleys and buttoning everything back up. It took me a longer, but I was doing it at home and without second set of hands present to help with breaking the crankshaft bolt loose.
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