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It was a 10 piece kit and ended up being about $195 after tax and took about 3-4 days for shipping from Japan. It was one the most common kits you see with the Mitsuboshi timing belt. No complaints, worked out great, good price for the amount of parts it contains, and everything seems to be quality Japanese aftermarket parts.
Pros: good price, quality parts
Vehicle:
Honda Acty
I use contitech on All my cars
Pros: used on all cars
I used to always go with OEM Honda parts for timing belt and water pump jobs. But the price of the OEM parts have gotten so high that I went with [this kit] on Amazon for my last TB job on my GSR, in late 2018. Mistuboshi timing belt, NPW water pump, GMB tensioner pulley. Those are all Japanese OEM parts suppliers, so I was comfortable using them. Almost 20k miles on thost parts now and everything is working great.
Pros: working great
Vehicle:
Acura Integra
Mileage: 20000 km
I used contitech on my E28 when i did the timing belt on it. Continental has been making automotive rubber products for forever so i trust them
Pros: trusted brand, reliable products
Vehicle:
BMW
INA pulleys
Aisin water pump
Contitech belts.
Vehicle:
Volvo S70
I have personally been running this one for the past 3 years with no problems. As for the belt itself, I always run a conti tech (OES) belt and never have had a issue
Pros: no problems, reliable
Vehicle:
Audi A4
If so, I had the same issue with until I did my first belt change at 100k miles. I thought it was the tensioner, but turned out to be the writing on the back of the timing belt as it passed over the tensioner roller. After I did the belt and tensioner and rollers, etc., the swish, swish, swish sound never came back. FYI, went with a Conti-tech belt rather than VW.
Pros: sound never came back
Cons: swishing sound when cold
Mileage: 160934 km
New Contitech T-Belt and tensioner
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Caddy
Mileage: 160000 km
I already flipped the belt around (now I have two fuzzy sides). I'll try de-tensioning it a little, and I guess if that doesn't work, a new belt and another new tensioner are in order. Might as well go with ContiTech this time around I spose.
Cons: two fuzzy sides
The tab that the cam gear has to spin the cam, snapped off the gear. Even though it was in time, the gear just spun on cam and didn't spin the actual cam.
Cons: gear spun on cam
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 7000 km
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