Reviews of Gates parts For Business

Just buy the wole WP+ housing as an assembly. Who cares if it's OEM. I install Gates WP/Timing belt kits on many other cars and they are excellent. Better than OEM.

Gates is the brand everyone get and refers to for the water pump. Good quality and cheap enough. If you can't get gates. There are two main impeller designs. Cast and sheet metal tabs. Supposedly the cast impeller design performs better. So if you're ordering from a generic parts store, make sure it's the cast impeller design (but the sheet metal design works just fine).

Get a Gates water pump. Good quality part for a good price.

I just did my ej205 with a gates kit and all bearings were NSK/koyo/NTN and matched the originals that came out.

I’m running the gates kit with zero issues

Man, you just get the thermostat itself. Nothing more. Something like that was for 2008 Rabbit (2.5 I-5). Mine car had exactly same symptoms. It would reach 70 C and maybe at some point 80, but had tendency to stay cool (below 80) when driving. I know thermostat opens at 80 C, so anything below 80 is not quite right.

my older style gates kit has a rattling belt tensioner pulley and it's about 40k miles old.

I changed my drive belt tensioner and belt about 1 month ago... I went aftermarket and bought gates for both (for an Accord 2006 A/T). Today, almost an hour into a drive, the belt shredded and the shredded part hit everything and was making a lot of noise. When I looked into it, it seems that one of the strands from the belt has come off... Just strange this issue surfaced after 2000km or so since installing, but maybe it's because the belt has expanded over this time?

Mine broke in less than 500 miles and their replacement broke too (which I paid for till I returned them the faulty one back) in less than 500 miles on an Audi A1. Now they have my money for 2 water pumps and I paid for labour costs of replacing twice, and waiting for a refund decision for more than a month. AVOID!!!

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.