Timing belt Gates or OEM Volvo

I have had to replace timing belts in two of my cars. One was a Volvo V40 and the other a Honda Accord.

have it on my civic for a year now no problems.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a Gates timing belt.

Gates makes the best timing belts.

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

As the title says, I changed my timing belt today. I replaced the timing belt, tensioner, idler pulley, serpentine belt, and serpentine belt tensioner. All replacement parts were OEM Volvo. There are two noteworthy cracks that go all the way across the belt and tiny cracks all over.

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.

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

Nako hindi na ako bibili ng Volvo! Sirain pala mga timing belt nun.

I forced him to take it to my current indy Volvo garage and they gave him a huge lost of everything wrong with it, including a timing belt and fan belt. It had the distinctive whisp/chirp of worn belts.