Reviews of Gates parts For Business

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.

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.

I have an 06. Had the same issue. Bought a cheap thermostat which turned out to be no good but acted the same as the old thermostat. Then, I changed EVERYTHING else in the coolant system, lol. Switched to Gates, problem solved.

Had gates on my 06. PITA to replace but never failed, good gasket, ok bearing.

Get a Toyota belt or one of those gates green belts.

Last time I got a new Gates water pump (made in china) the flange position on the shaft was a little different than my old one but it was close enough.

Gates pump on my Chevy 5.3 lasted a year and half. That's bullshit.

we warrantied a Gates thermostat on a pentastar 3.6L three fkn times because the guy said it kept overheating going up hills. Originally replaced for P0128 thermostat code. Then we put an oem part in and it’s never overheated since.

Installed a Gates water pump on a Toyota Rav4 with a V6. Needed it now and couldn't wait for an OEM or Aisin one from Rockauto. I should have waited because this pump didn't last two months before pissing coolant.

Gates water pumps failed on both my friend's Toyota Echo and my Sienna, his after under a year and mine in about 2 years. Less than 3,000 miles on my Sienna since pump was changed. Ugh. The labor cost, of course, is the bee-atch, more than the pump cost, of course.