Owner reviews for timing belt kit

Should go with the Aisin everyone goes with that and have heard nothing but positive reviews

Parts authority has the aisin timing belt kit. They're a well known parts outfit and the parts are legitimate.

It's OEM, and the kit I got includes the belt, water pump, idler pulleys and the hydraulic tensioner. That's the only kit other than the OEM from Toyota stuff I'd use.

I just ordered an Aisin kit from rock auto since aisin makes the oem kits for toyotas. To my pleasant surprise it had a hand full of oem toyota parts in the box but the pump was aisin branded and the timing belt was mistuboshi.

I wouldn’t see an issue with going with the aisin kit I did but being that it’s such an invasive job it’s one of those things that you really only want to do once and be done with it because of the amount of work to get to the water pump and belt.

VERY VERY IMPORTANT! get a quality timing component kit! The cheap tensioners WILL fail. I buy and fix Volvo's that have jumped time and wrecked the engine, and they all have a new timing belt kit on them.

Glad you have the Aisin timing belt kit in there, it’s literally OEM parts without “toyota” stamped on them. The gates stuff will be ok but may not last as long as OEM. I would probably do OEM for my GX but those parts are easy to replace, and Gates seems to make decent quality parts. I would recommend replacing the crank seal, definitely do OEM for that.

INA timing belt kit available which is also good. INA is OE equipment.

Use an Aisin TKH-002 kit purchased from an auto parts seller (Rockauto, CarID, parts store) not any sellers on Amazon or Ebay etc. The Aisin kit have Aisin water pump and tensioner, Mitsuboshi belt, and good brand idlers etc.

I can't think of a reason not to use AISIN with the price being similar to the others. It was when I purchased 6 months ago and I'm greatly pleased with it.

I initially bought an AISIN kit but they decided to return it for the factory Honda pieces. It was about $200 but I didn't want to lose sleep over it.

I installed it myself and I think my total dollar cost was around $550 or so including replacing the water pump, any torqued fasteners, and the Honda coolant.

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.