I have had good luck with them for years.
Pros: good luck
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Gates makes good belts.
Pros: good quality
I've had gates belts do that in 20k.
Cons: premature failure, short lifespan
Mileage: 20000 km
Gates is fine. If you find the gates racing belt it's better. But they are super rare these days. Stay away from any Amazon or ebay crap.
Pros: Gates is fine
Cons: super rare
Vehicle:
Volvo 850
Gates timing belt broke and took out the engine in my old 2009 legacy with the sohc 2.5l. It was only installed for about 5 years and 60k mi / 96.5k km. Don't skimp on the most important belt your engine has, buy genuine subaru.
Cons: belt broke, engine damage
Vehicle:
Subaru Legacy
Mileage: 96500 km
Gates, I've installed dozens of them and never had a problem, easily outlast the timing belt.
Pros: easily outlast timing belt
Cons: no problems
I used a gates (rpm) belt , its expensive ($80?) but i feel like thats a part you dont want to go cheap with !
Pros: reliable part
Cons: expensive
I’ve always worked on Miata’s, but I’ve never used anything other than gates timing belt and water pumps. Only time I’ve had a gates timing belt fail on me was due to my own fault in which the belt was rubbing on the timing covers until it got caught and ripped a chunk out of it. Even without that chunk it still ran and drove fine while revving the engine 1000rpms past its intended revlimiter.
Pros: ran fine even damaged
Cons: belt rubbing on covers
Vehicle:
Mazda
We have a gates timing belt in our 04 Jetta that was placed Dec 2010 and 72k miles ago. Going to change it here soon with a new one this spring. Its accessory belt is gates too. My 06 Navigator has a gates drive belt. Brother in law’s BRZ had a gates belt.
Pros: long lasting
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Jetta
Mileage: 115873 km
I've been using a Gates belt on my weekend toy for the past 5,000 hard, abusive miles with no catastrophic failure. I did have their water pump fail internally in under 1,000 miles. Replaced with Subaru OEM.
Pros: no catastrophic failure
Cons: water pump failed internally
Vehicle:
Subaru
Mileage: 5000 km
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