Timing belt Continental or Gates

Gates makes the best timing belts.

I have the gates kevlar belt. It's great.

Just had a Gates one put on, no complaints here. One note to mention is that the water pump pulley seems to sometimes not seat on to the shaft perfectly. When mine got done I noticed that the pump pulley wobbled around excessively. The shop took it back, removed the belt, retorqued and all was good. The technician said that weird lining up with a pump pulley is a Honda thing, never knew that fiestas had that too.

Never had a problem with Continental belts in the 15+ years I've done timing belts, at recommended interval replacements as directed.

i have a blue gates belt on my m20, its a good belt

We use Gates belts in the commercial space, they're good quality.

Gates lasted 50k miles …. Aisin or OEM seem to go longer

I’ve always worked on Miata’s, but I’ve never used anything other than gates timing belt and water pumps. Only time I’ve had a gates timing belt fail on me was due to my own fault in which the belt was rubbing on the timing covers until it got caught and ripped a chunk out of it. Even without that chunk it still ran and drove fine while revving the engine 1000rpms past its intended revlimiter.

One this I did notice. Your belt is a gates t240, when I bought my truck the previous owner had that belt, and I found issues with it. The proper belt for mine is a gates T154. 154 being for 92 and earlier and 240 for 93 and up.

We put a fresh Gates one in the daughters 1.4MA and it whined like crazy despite the tension being spot on.