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I've bought parts for cars that claimed to be made in Japan only to find made in China stamps on some of the parts included, like gates timing belt kits most of the parts were from Japan except one of the pulleys they switched to China source so I know to not use the Chinese pulley in that kit
I ordered a Gates PowerGrip Kit + Waterpump KP25433XS-1 set.
I put a Gates kit on mine. I never see any problems with those.
Gates used to be a decent brand, but I would avoid them anymore.
Interval is 60k miles (100k km) or 5 years. If the belt let's go, so do your valves and maybe a piston. Buy only Gates complete timing belt kits from a genuine vendor.
OEM OEM OEM I have heard horror stories regarding the Gates Kit on this sub. Apparently they changed supplier and have much lower quality now. Same with other non-OEM parts, they are way more likely to go out early. When it’s your engine you’re risking, it’s worth it to just spend the couple extra bucks for the safety of 10 years worth of reliability on the belt and pulleys.
I just did my ej205 with a gates kit and all bearings were NSK/koyo/NTN and matched the originals that came out.
my older style gates kit has a rattling belt tensioner pulley and it's about 40k miles old.
I’m running the gates kit with zero issues
Fuck gates kits. They are junk. I’ve heard of this happening in several occasions along with the timing belt snapping on people with very low miles or simply from it being too cold out.
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