Reviews of Contitech timing belt kit

I want my car to be as healthy as possible, so I figured I’d do a full tune up and replace everything. I wanted to hear your opinion on the following timing kit.

It includes:

1 Contitech Timing Belt (113 teeth)

1 Contitech Balance Shaft Belt (70 teeth)

1 GMB Timing Belt Tensioner (bearing assembly)

1 GMB Balance Shaft Tensioner

1 Timing Belt Tensioner Spring

1 Camshaft Seal

1 Front Crankshaft Seal

1 AISIN Water Pump

What do you guys think about these? Are they good quality? I know the oem water pump is aisin, so that’s fine, but what about the tensioners and belts?

It’s pretty hard to get parts where I live, and getting the aisin kit from rockauto (only pump, tensioners, and belts so I'll have to get the seals and springs somewhere else) will be pretty expensive because of shipping.

This kit is missing one spring. Is it a big deal if I reuse the old one?

I know the kit doesn’t include the balancer shaft seal; I’ll order it separately.

Thanks!

By the way, I plan on replacing the oil pump too, so any tips on that would be helpful.

Personally I would use an OEM kit from Honda but I’ve never heard anything bad about the Contitech kits.

Since you're going through and doing the timing belt, I highly recommend FCP Euro's Contitech kit. I just installed this on my Jetta. For ~200 bucks, it's hard to beat. All quality parts too.

I placed an order @ FCP Euro for their Contitech timing belt kit, along with a Bosch MAF. I placed my order Monday and got it yesterday. This is my first order with FCP Euro, and I'm very impressed. Will be ordering from them again!

I selected the Continental ContiTech Pro Series Plus timing kit with plastic impeller (PP334LK1) for $245 from Bap Geon in Newport News, Virginia, and it contains the following components: ContiTech timing belt Annex-Technik water pump with plastic impeller NTN and Schaeffler idler pulleys Litens tensioner pulley OE camshaft seal Installation instructions Installation was performed for $300 by Jeff Grant at [url]www.volkswagenrepairva.com [/URL] Continental ContiTech Pro Series Mileage Guarantee Registration for 75k parts warranty completed.

Cont-tech Timing belt kit with waterpump within the last 3,000 km

I used the basic ContiTech kit there when I did my GTI. I also separately sourced a pump with a metal impeller and a Conti accessory belt.