Timing belt OEM FORD or Gates

Usually with auto parts you get what you pay for. So pay a little more for better quality stuff. The brands I like to go with for timing belts are gates and continental.

Gates belt is great but I'm not convinced that anyone not tracking their car needs it. Even then, it's probably not necessary 80% of the time.

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.

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 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 kevlar and tracer belt is shiaatt.

Gates seems to have lost some quality in recent years.