Timing belt Continental or Gates

My gates belt looks identical to that and has ever since 5 miles after i changed it, and that was like 4 years ago....

I would highly recommend replacing the oem hydrolic tensioner and pulley with a conversion kit to the older style manual mk3 tensioner. The kit provides an idler pulley. Very nice kit from integrated engineering. This is a sure way to avoid another possible failure and i would also recommend going with a gates timing belt. I just did this job on my1.8t and am very happy with it and can sleep peacefully at night knowing i won't have a failure.

The belt I installed by Continental had a warranty and it was fairly easy to install myself.

If you happen to need the timing belt, tensioner, water pump, oil cooler, thermostat housing, thermostat etc i have literally all of it brand new including the gates racing timing belt, all has literally 0 miles.

I have the gates racing Kevlar belt and I has given me no issues, there is no uneven belt wear or signs of damage and its been about 20k since I changed it

Gates T306rb for 16v aba or abf

I'm sold on the Gates Racing kevlar belts, seems like cheap insurance for $30-40 extra.

i got the gates racing timing belt. have had no complaints about the belt. other than it squeaking at first and making me think something was wrong.

Gates seems to have lost some quality in recent years.

I've had some problems with Gates for timing belts. I've had 2 instances when the timing belt was making noise after installing it, hard noise to describe, basically the belt being very hard. Threw on an OEM belt and it was fine.